Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie "Hotel Rwanda," refused Wednesday to participate in his trial, as an American citizen testified that he had financed rebel activities against his government.

Egyptian tug boats worked Thursday to free a giant container vessel stuck in the Suez Canal that threatens to disrupt one of the world's busiest maritime trade routes for days. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it was trying to refloat the Taiwa...

New Zealand's parliament has unanimously passed legislation giving working mothers and their partners the right to paid leave after suffering a miscarriage or stillbirth, in what is believed to be one of the first provisions of its type in the world...

Libyan militia leader Mahmoud al-Werfalli, wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, was shot dead in the eastern city of Benghazi on Wednesday, security sources said.

A British-born militant sentenced to death for the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl was ordered to be let out of prison Thursday by a Pakistan court in the latest twist to a legal saga spanning nearly two decades. The court said, however,...

Shoubhik Dolai was riddled with bullets in West Bengal, the killing fields of Indian politics where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing hard to win power for the first time in elections starting Saturday. Victory in the eastern state of 90 mill...

American model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen quit Twitter on Wednesday, becoming the latest celebrity to ditch the platform after facing abuse. Like many tech behemoths, Twitter is under increasing scrutiny for facilitating torrents of invecti...

European Union leaders will on Thursday consider diplomatic and economic incentives to encourage strategic southeastern neighbour Turkey to continue improving often fraught ties with the EU and promote stability.

World Rugby received widespread support Thursday for backing plans to include two Pacific island teams in the southern hemisphere's Super Rugby competition, with claims it could change the face of the international game. Fiji winger Nemani Nadolo s...

The looming third wave of coronavirus infections and Europe's struggle to mount a vaccination drive will dominate Thursday's EU video summit, despite a welcome guest appearance by Joe Biden.

Tencent's billionaire founder Pony Ma -- China's second richest man -- has met with anti-monopoly regulators and agreed his firm will be "as compliant as possible," after rival tech giant Alibaba was battered by legal woes. Tencent, which owns the ...

Dragging a dead rat by a string, 11-year-old Jendry scoots on a single roller skate amongst the tombs and graves at a massive cemetery in the south of Caracas. The morbid setting of human remains and broken coffins has no impact on Jendry, who's li...

Lewis Hamilton's team chief Toto Wolff is confident that champions Mercedes can bounce back from a poor pre-season test and fight for victory in Sunday's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The Austrian boss, who conceded that the team had suffered ...

The opposition in Belarus called for fresh demonstrations Thursday to breathe life into a protest movement against strongman Alexander Lukashenko that fizzled this winter in the face of a severe crackdown. Rallies erupted in the ex-Soviet country ...

British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday revised down by three percentage points the effectiveness of its Covid vaccine after American authorities raised concerns that results reported from its US trial were outdated.