More than 1,500 people escaped during a prison riot in Mozambique's capital Maputo that left 33 people dead on Wednesday.

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...

Suriname's former dictator and later president Desi Bouterse has died, the government of the former Dutch colony announced ...

Banda Aceh (Indonesia) (AFP) – Emotional ceremonies were expected across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who ...

A "terrorist act" sank the cargo ship that went down in international waters in the Mediterranean this week, the Russian ...

Hamas and Israel traded accusations on Wednesday over delays in finalising a ceasefire and hostage release deal, after both ...

The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Christmas Day over their failure to agree on a ceasefire deal ...

A train driver's suicide caused widespread delays on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day in France, with some 3,000 ...

A flight from Azerbaijan to Grozny, Chechnya, crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25. Miraculously, 32 of the 67 people on ...

La Liga's relegation-threatened Valencia have appointed Carlos Corberan as their new manager after prising him from English ...

Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one ...

Desi Bouterse, the former dictator of Suriname who was a fugitive from justice for the murder of political opponents four ...