A woman from Azerbaijan who spent about $21m at luxury London department store Harrods over the course of a decade has become the first target of a British power to seize money from people

South Korea's foreign minister said that Seoul is considering lifting some of its unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang to create more momentum for diplomacy aimed at improving relations and defusing the nuclear crisis. Kang Kyung-wha

The regional government in China's Xinjiang region has approved new rules on the controversial "re-education centres", as international criticism mounts over the detention of up to one million people in the restive far west.

Last month, an outrageous phrase, "Hang the Whites", was trending on French Twitter. What brought this horrendous exclamation under the national spotlight was a provocative song named PLB (the French acronym for "Hang the

JEDDAH: Store operators in bazaars across Iran have joined a strike by truck drivers as civil unrest grows in the face of a collapsing economy. The protest by merchants began in the city of Shiraz

RABAT: The Moroccan navy opened fire on a boat transporting migrants from the North African country, wounding one of them, a military source said on Wednesday.Despite warning shots, “the motorboat that was carrying 58

BENI MELLAL: A 17-year-old Moroccan girl whose alleged gang rape and forcible tattooing sparked a public outcry has confronted in court the only minor among the 12 suspects accused of assaulting and torturing her.The

Manila, Philippines - In Tondo, Manila's largest slum, children root around in the garbage, looking for old chicken to boil and eat. Life in Tondo, an area more than 100,000 call home, centres around

The release of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was designed to define the impacts of global warming reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius. It also highlighted the increased impact of a

Tucson, Arizona - The first thing Alfredo* bought for his parents when he started working was a refrigerator. He was still in Mexico, in the city of Mazatlan in Sinaloa, where he worked in