NEW YORK: Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence’s campaign plane slid off a runway after landing at New York’s LaGuardia…

Series of aftershocks rattle the area after two tremors with magnitude of 5.5 and 6.1 hit the region

SYDNEY: Australian scientists are preparing for an international expansion of a programme, already hailed as a saviour in Townsville, that…

MELBOURNE: An orangutan at Perth Zoo has been named the world’s oldest Sumatran orangutan in captivity by the Guinness Book…

NAIROBI: A man was shot and killed by Kenyan police outside the US embassy in the capital Nairobi on Thursday…

BEIJING: China’s ruling Communist Party declared its General Secretary Xi Jinping the “core” of its leadership on Thursday, elevating his…

JAKARTA: An Indonesian woman was jailed for 20 years Thursday for murdering a friend from an Australian college with poisoned…

BAGHDAD: A US general told AFP on Thursday that between 800 and 900 Islamic State group fighters have been killed…