NEW DELHI: Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, leaders of India’s defeated Congress party, offered to resign yesterday after last week’s election…

KANO, Nigeria: Four people were killed, including a young girl, in a suicide car bomb attack in the north Nigerian…

SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye took tearful responsibility Monday for the mishandling of last month’s Sewol ferry disaster, and…

HANOI: Vietnam flooded major cities with police to avert anti-China protests yesterday in the wake of rare and deadly rioting…

BUENOS AIRES: Paleontologists in Argentina’s remote Patagonia region have discovered fossils of what may be the largest dinosaur ever, amid…

BEIJING: China said yesterday it has suspended some plans for bilateral exchanges with Vietnam following deadly anti-Chinese violence there, as…

BRAZIL: Inmates in a prison in the northeastern Brazilian state of Sergipe took 122 hostages – nearly all of them…

PORTUGAL: Portugal on Saturday exited its 78-billion-euro international bailout programme, but the government warned that it was no time for…