Leila Ali Elmi's earliest memories of Sweden are as a two-year-old who fled civil war in Somalia with her family. She remembers her favourite pair of yellow trousers and moments of her childhood spent

South Korea on Wednesday ramped up its firepower as its battle pollution, passing a set of bills that designate the problem a 'social disaster' and which could unlock emergency funds to tackle the issue.

A German journalist who was recently refused new press accreditations by Turkey said that he had received the work credentials after all days after German foreign minister had complained against the move. Joerg Brase, Istanbul

Israeli police said the entrances to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound will be reopened on Wednesday morning, a day after they sealed off the gates in response to what they said was a firebombing of

"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman and fellow Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin are among dozens indicted in a $25m scam to help their children cheat their way into top US universities. The fraud scheme was

BEIRUT: A top UN peacekeeping official on Tuesday moved to scale down the operations of a naval security task force in Lebanon. UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix held talks with Lebanese officials about

BEIRUT: A top UN peacekeeping official on Tuesday moved to scale down the operations of a naval security task force in Lebanon. UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix held talks with Lebanese officials about

WIESBADEN: An Iraqi man confessed in a German court Tuesday to the murder of a teenage girl which last year inflamed anti-immigrant tensions. He denied raping her. “My vision went black and then it happened,”

A ferocious assault continued on ISIL's final enclave on Wednesday as hundreds of fighters and their families surrendered poured out of the besieged Syrian town of Baghouz. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said

The US Senate will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to end Washington's support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, as lawmakers push President Donald Trump to toughen his policy toward the