DAMASCUS: Syria reopened a wing of the capital’s famed antiquities museum on Sunday after six years of closure to protect its exhibits and visitors from rebel rocket fire in the civil war.Officials swung open

The Muslim-American community has raised tens of thousands of dollars in a crowdfunding effort to help the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left at least 11 people dead and six wounded. The

One person has been killed and two others wounded in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, when the bodyguard of a cabinet minister under ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe opened fire at a crowd of protesters. 

Georgians voted in presidential elections on Sunday, with two former foreign ministers as the frontrunners for the largely ceremonial office. French-born Salome Zurabishvili and anti-corruption Grigol Vashadze have an almost equal chance of being

A white gunman walks into a synagogue outside of Pittsburgh and guns down eleven congregants after screaming, "All Jews must die!" during Sabbath services. Another self-identifying white male sends a string of "mail bombs"

Pulwama, Indian-administered Kashmir - Encounters, killings, stone pelting and protests have become a daily affair in India-administered Kashmir, with the toll on human lives spiking in past two years. According to local reports, at least 50

Some fishermen in Kenya have hung up their nets - and are instead trying to conserve marine life. Now known as "reef rangers", they have been trained to monitor fish stocks and their habitats.

An Indonesian city is facing a public health crisis - exactly a month after being devastated by an earthquake, followed by a tsunami. Torrential rain now threatens to spread malaria and dengue fever in

Many South Sudanese living in Sudan are being forced to live on the margins as they have no way to prove their identity. That's because they were there before South Sudan became an independent

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, campaigning for December's presidential race is heating up. The ruling coalition has held its first major gathering in the capital Kinshasa, attracting tens of thousands of supporters. But