Thousands of people gathered in Yemen's war-ravaged city of Saada on Monday for the funerals of 51 people, including 40 children, who were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-UAE military alliance, backed by the US.

A human rights group called for an international inquiry into a deadly crackdown on supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood during a 2013 protest in Egypt. Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Egyptian authorities

The death toll from a major earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok reached more than 430 on Monday. Bodies were still being pulled from destroyed buildings following the shallow 6.9-magnitude quake on August

A fire at a hospital in Taiwan's most populous city killed nine people and injured 15 others early on Monday. The blaze broke out on the seventh floor of the building, which was used

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, employees at the Ministry for State Security, or Stasi, frantically tore up hundreds of thousands of incriminating documents containing evidence of how they spied on dissidents

Turkey's central bank on Monday announced it was taking all necessary measures to ensure financial stability after the collapse of the lira, promising to provide "all the liquidity the banks need". The Turkish currency

Dakar, Senegal - In the lively neighbourhood of Medina in Dakar, horse-drawn carts jingle around crowded buses and makeshift stalls sell everything from clothes to mobile phones. In a narrow alley, behind a bustling

North Korea's Kim Jong-un and South Korea's Moon Jae-in will meet in Pyongyang in September following talks between the two sides at the demilitarised zone. North and South Korean officials held high-level negotiations at the

Grieving parents were among those burying loved ones in Yemen on Monday after an air raid killed dozens of people, including at least 29 children. On Thursday a school bus in the Dahyan area

An explosion flattened a residential building in Syria's war-torn northwest, killing at least 36 people including 12 children. The blast brought down the six-storey building in the town of Sarmada, 350km north of the