Kenya is holding a meeting of East Africa’s leaders on growing violence in South Sudan, where more than 1,000 people are believed to have...
Thai government said it would ask the army to provide security for February's elections, as the military called for restraint on both sides. Thailand is...
Lebanon’s ex-Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah and four others have been killed in a huge explosion in central Beirut. Mohamad Chatah was an adviser to the...
Paul Anthony Ciancia - the man charged with murdering a federal security officer at Los Angeles International Airport in November - has pleaded not...
At least 5 people have been injured by a bomb blast close to a bus in Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry has said. Earlier reports of...
China and South Korea got angry after PM Shinzo Abe visited Yasukuni shrine that honors Japan's war dead, including some convicted war criminals. Shinzo Abe...
More than half a million households in the north-eastern US and the south-eastern Canada are still without electricity after last weekend's severe ice storm. Utility...
Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a major cabinet reshuffle after three ministerial resignations over a corruption inquiry. Recep Tayyip Erdogan named 10 new...
Thai riot police have fired teargas at protesters trying to prevent political parties from registering for February's elections at Bangkok’s stadium. About 500 protesters tried...
Edward Snowden has delivered an "alternative" UK Christmas message, urging an end to mass surveillance. The broadcast was carried on Channel 4 as an alternative...
Delaney Brown - the terminally ill girl who received support from thousands of Christmas carolers outside her home over the weekend - died early...
President Barack Obama urged Americans to remember troops serving far from home and embrace the spirit of the season and give back in his...
UPS acknowledged getting swamped by the seasonal cheer and failing to deliver thousands of orders in time for Christmas. "The volume of air packages in...
Santa Claus proved he can also travel by sea in the Florida Keys. Santa, played by Keys dive shop operator Spencer Slate, took some time...
Florida police officers stepped in to donate presents to a family whose Christmas gifts and dog were stolen Monday. Tampa police say burglars broke into...
More than 200,000 homes and businesses remained without electric power for a fourth day in parts of Michigan and Maine. Utility crews worked through the...
Pope Francis has urged for humanitarian aid in Syria in his first Christmas Day address – Urbi et Orbi. The pontiff told thousands of pilgrims...
Turkey’s Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan and Interior Minister Muammer Guler have resigned after their sons were charged amid a corruption inquiry that has hit...
A Santa's helper delivering toys in Washington has been shot in the back with a pellet gun. As a TV crew filmed him in the...
The US government has offered help to people who missed the December 24 deadline to enroll for the ObamaCare. The government said anyone who failed...
Pope Francis celebrated his first Christmas Eve Mass since becoming pontiff St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. The pontiff once again preached the importance of...
Crowds of pilgrims and tourists have begun to gather in the biblical town of Bethlehem to kick off Christmas Eve celebrations. The nearby Church of...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky has applied for a visa to travel to Switzerland, the Swiss foreign ministry says. A ministry’s spokesman said Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail...
Russian authorities have decided to drop piracy charges against the first of 30 people accused of taking part in a Greenpeace protest in the...
New evidence is emerging of alleged ethnic killings committed during more than a week of fighting in South Sudan. The violence follows a power struggle...