BEIJING: A fire at a Chinese coal mine killed 26 workers early yesterday, state media reported, the latest fatal incident…

HONG KONG: Hundreds of Hong Kong police yesterday cleared a pro-democracy protest camp, arresting Joshua Wong and another student leader…

MANILA: The Philippines will simplify its weather warnings to make them easier to understand in order to prevent the annual…

BOGOTA: Colombia’s FARC guerrillas freed two captive soldiers Tuesday but demanded the army halt operations to avoid jeopardising the separate…

MEXICO CITY: Two months after 43 students vanished in the night, change is afoot in Mexico: protests have swept the…

FERGUSON, United States: When Sean Jackson became a father, he says he knew he needed to teach his son how…

FERGUSON, United States: The white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in the riot-hit US town of…

BEIRUT: A string of Syrian regime air strikes on the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed capital Raqa on Tuesday killed at…