As Australia faces the unexpected prospect of a hung Parliament, the fate of the nation is set to rest on an unlikely handful of little-known independent MPs whose support will be vital to propping up a future government.
In just the past few days, the Islamic State’s evolving brand of terrorism has revealed its deadly, shifting faces.
After shouldering loads up and down steep hills here for 35 years, Mr Niu Dancheng knows the exact number of stairs to the Yangtze River docks where he often finds work as a porter. There are 128 to Dock 8 at Chaotianmen port, he said, which he had just descended with 40kg of roasted duck for a cruise ship.
The Philippine military has dismissed as mere “propaganda” a video purportedly released by militants to recruit radicals from South-east Asia into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Shareholders approved the plan to create a new class of shares and re-elected all eight directors at Facebook’s annual meeting
The presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, has suggested the country should consider using profiling to combat crime.
Acquisition meant to bolster product line that is weak in its markets
Brazil's chief prosecutor Rodrigo Janot is seeking permission to have top politicians from the governing PMDB party arrested, Brazilian media say.
Mr Rodrigo Duterte is not always a man of his word. He has said so himself: "If it's preposterous, don't believe me." This makes the Philippines' 16th president a tough nut to crack, especially for people who make a living out of weaving together words, like journalists.
A collective that calls itself OurMine boasted that it had broken into a handful of his social media accounts, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Screengrabs posted by Engadget showed the hackers notifying Mr. Zuckerberg of the breach using his own Twitter account. Bold move.
India's first Mr Universe and celebrated bodybuilder Manohar Aich, popularly known as "Pocket Hercules," has died at the age of 104.
There are few relationships between President Obama and another world leader more unlikely than the one he has with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.
Donald J. Trump would not be Silicon Valley’s first choice as president. Or its second. Or maybe even its third.
President Obama invited a Syrian refugee to this year’s State of the Union address, and he has spoken passionately about embracing refugees as a core American value.
The anti-corruption minister in Brazil's interim government has resigned, after a recording suggested he tried to derail an investigation into the state oil company, Petrobras.
Putting aside very recent and bitter differences, London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party, on Monday joined forces with David Cameron, the Conservative prime minister, in the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union.
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