Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join the swearing-in ceremony in Washington. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is expected to attend Monday’s inauguration after meeting incoming…
When Innocent James completed his chores after school, he would light a kerosene lamp and lay down to read…
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying…
The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response…
Two veteran Iranian Supreme Court judges, known for handling high-profile cases, were shot dead in Tehran by an assailant…
Of those injured, ten people were transferred to hospital, two with “maximum priority” and another two “who require urgent…
Three people were killed and three others were injured in an attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on…
An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a…