Saudi Arabia has described the killing of Jamal khashoggi inside its consulate in Istanbul as a mistake committed by rogue elements. Both Turkey and Saudi Arabia are conducting their own investigations, but Turkish government

India's air quality has plummeted to the worst possible category, the government's Central Pollution Control Board said on Friday. The level of PM2.5, tiny particulate matter that can dangerously clog lungs, read 187, more

At least 19 people, mostly children, were killed when torrential rains swept away a bus carrying students and teachers touring near the Dead Sea, according to sources in the country's civil defence directorate. The

On this week's UpFront, we speak with Ukrainian deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, about the ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine and the situation in Russian-annexed Crimea. And we discuss

A top Sri Lankan police official was arrested on Thursday over a suspected plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena, according to a police spokesman. "The Criminal Investigation Division of police today arrested Nalaka De

Google has sacked at least 48 employees, including 13 senior managers, over sexual harassment since 2016, according to an email sent by chief executive Sundar Pichai on Thursday. The letter was in response to

Organisers of an Indonesian movement to promote a moderate brand of Islam cancelled a mass rally after its youth supporters burned the flag of an outlawed hard-line Muslim group, sparking allegations of blasphemy. The

A knife-wielding woman wounded 14 children at a kindergarten in western China on Friday. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman armed with a kitchen knife, was taken into custody in the city of Chongqing and

DOHA: Of all the problems faced by Qatar’s World Cup, rainfall was probably the very last issue tournament organizers in the desert state expected to deal with. But severe flooding caused by a year’s

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi Cabinet met outside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Thursday for the first time in 15 years. The meeting, chaired by new Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, followed an