Naomi Osaka has defeated Serena Williams in the US Open women's final to win her first Grand Slam title. The 20-year-old Japanese-Haitian, who had dropped just one set en route to Saturday's final, prevailed 6-2,

The United States has cut one of its last remaining aid programmes for Palestinians, a move that is going to affect critical patients, including cancer victims and children with serious health conditions. Washington's decision

The two leading groups in Iraq's parliament have demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi over the unrest in the southern city of Basra, where a recent escalation in violence during protests over public services has seen at

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in major international cities to demand governmental action on climate change as talks to reinvigorate the Paris Agreement continued in Thailand.  The "Rise for

The Netherlands has suspended a planned deportation of two Armenian children whose bid for asylum was rejected, in a case that has drawn nationwide attention. The surprising U-turn came after the siblings - 12-year-old Lili and

BEIRUT: Activists and a war monitoring group say Syrian government and Russian warplanes have targeted the southern edge of Idlib province with a series of airstrikes, ratcheting up the military pressure on the densely

BAGHDAD: The two leading groups in Iraq's parliament on Saturday called on Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi to resign, after lawmakers held an emergency meeting on unrest shaking the country's south."We demand the government apologise to

GENEVA: Yemen's foreign minister accused the Houthi militia on Saturday of “trying to sabotage the negotiations” that ended without their attendance in Geneva and said that the UN envoy had not been firm enough with

Three million people are trapped in the Syrian province of Idlib. It is the last remaining rebel stronghold, and likely to be the scene of a major military offensive. Ankara's call for a ceasefire

As political parties in Sweden make their last pitches ahead of Sunday's elections, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has denounced a far-right party as racist and called it a threat to the nation's European values. "We are not