World

All 11 trapped miners were confirmed dead after rescuers retrieved the last two bodies late on Wednesday due to a colliery gas outburst in central China's Hubei Province.

A Turkish restaurant in London that is owned and managed by Muslims is offering a free Christmas dinner to the elderly and homeless so they don't have to spend the holiday alone.

US President Barack Obama has said the United States "must never hesitate to act when necessary", as he acknowledged that the situation in Afghanistan is still tough and threat from terrorists, ISIL in particular has metastasized in other parts of Middle...

Yemen on Tuesday appeared to reject a U.N. plan to end its civil war, saying the roadmap would create a "dangerous international precedent" by legitimising the rebellion against the country's internationally recognised government.

Here's a look at the potential economic implications of Italy's political drama.

A Hindu temple was vandalised and three idols of deities were destroyed by some unknown people in Bangladesh's northern Netrokona area, triggering panic among the minority community in the Muslim-majority nation.

Austria will provide a new gauge of the populist wave sweeping Western democracies on Sunday, as the divided country holds a vote that could deliver the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War Two.

Italians started to vote on Sunday in a referendum on constitutional reform which will decide the political future of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has promised to resign if he loses.

In his meeting with Kissinger, Xi said China hopes for sustained, healthy and stable ties with the US.

It was nine minutes into his speech on Thursday evening that Francois Hollande dropped the bombshell that only a few members of his inner circle knew was coming. He would not, after all, seek a second term as president of France.

President Francois Hollande shocked France on Thursday by announcing he would not seek a second term next year, acknowledging his deep unpopularity and making way for another leftist candidate to take on conservative Francois Fillon and far-right leader M...

There has also been a sharp increase in applications for citizenship by EU migrants since the Brexit vote, while Ireland said there had been a spike in Britons with Irish ancestry getting passports.

After five decades of war, more than four years of negotiations and two signing ceremonies, Colombia's congress late Wednesday formally ratified a peace agreement allowing leftist rebels to enter politics.

A fleeing seven-year-old child was amongst dozens more civilians allegedly executed by the Islamic State group in Mosul in recent weeks, the UN said on Tuesday.

This will be Annan's second visit to the region since the government appointed him head of an advisory commission to propose solutions to the sectarian conflict between the Buddhist majority and Rohingyas, EFE news reported.

The White House said that there is no evidence to support the alleged "election fraud" claimed by President-elect Donald Trump, who said that "millions" of people voted "illegally" for his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in the November 8 election.