BAGHDAD: Some 28,000 people have fled the Tikrit area as Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State jihadist group in a…

YANGON: Myanmar authorities defended a crackdown on a Yangon rally, which saw police and men in civilian clothes beat unarmed…

CAPE TOWN: A woman charged with stealing a newborn baby from its sleeping mother 17 years ago was granted bail…

TAIPEI: A former college student was sentenced to death in Taiwan yesterday for killing four people and wounding more than…

MANILA: A Philippine army offensive against a Muslim rebel faction has forced 70,000 people from their homes, a district governor…

NEW YORK: An airliner skidded off a runway at New York’s La Guardia airport and slid to a halt just…

CHINA: A man was shot dead by police and another detained after a knife attack at a Chinese train station…

WASHINGTON: A new powerful winter storm moving across eastern United States is bringing heavy snow from parts of the Ohio…