Photographs of a boy crying next to the body of his father who died while cleaning a sewer last week in India prompted social media users to raise nearly $70,000 to support the family.

Itogon, Philippines - Mary Jane Baccodong had to steel herself to deliver her sermon at a church service on Sunday morning, and held back the urge to break down. The anxious preacher just learned

Male, Maldives - The usual din of fishmongers' cries in the Maldivian capital's waterfront was drowned out by loud boos on Tuesday, when a lorry carrying flag-waving activists campaigning to re-elect President Abdulla Yameen lumbered

Russia's top election official recommended the result of a gubernatorial election in the country's far eastern Primorsky region to be annulled alleging it was rigged. Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission, said

A grim wait for dozens of people still missing continues, after super Typhoon Mangkhut tore through the Philippines burying dozens of people under a massive landslide. At least 81 people have been killed and

BEIRUT, MOSCOW: Thousands of residents of Syria’s last major opposition bastion Idlib headed home within 48 hours of the announcement of a deal to avoid a government offensive to retake it, a war monitor

WASHINGTON: The US has once again named Iran as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, accusing it of intensifying numerous conflicts and trying to undermine governments throughout the Middle East.The State Department's annual survey

Correction 19/09/2018: A previous version of this article misstated the name of North Carolina's governor. It has been corrected to state Roy Cooper is the state's current governor. Two women died when a sheriff's

Fort Trump: This was the name Poland suggested for a new US military base on its soil, and it's willing to fork out more than $2bn for the project. During an official visit to Washington,

Civilians in Syria's last rebel-held bastion have cautiously welcomed a "fragile" agreement signed by Ankara and Moscow to create a demilitarised zone that put on hold a threatened offensive on Idlib, even as they expressed