Oil-rich Alberta holds a non-binding referendum on Monday on whether the western province should secede from Canada.

Mali's armed forces and Russian backers utilised some "apparent indiscriminate" drone strikes and other abuses, Human Rights ...

There are now more Catholics in Africa than in Europe, the Vatican said on Friday, releasing the latest Catholic Church ...

Supendi, a 33-year-old palm fruit farmer, cooled his heels at a mill in Indonesia's West Kalimantan for four frustrating days ...

The United States wants Israel to do more to deter attacks committed by settlers in the West Bank, US Secretary of State ...

RUMA PAUL, JENNIFER RIGBY, SAM JAHAN and ZIA CHOWDHURY, of Reuters, report on the battle to contain the world's worst measles ...

ELLIS HEASLEY looks at the plight of the Zion 8, arrested during a crackdown on one of the largest unregistered Protestant ...

Egypt is ready to provide Saudi Arabia with the support it needs to defend its security and stability, the presidency said.

The city of Taiz is rapidly emerging as the most important battlefront in Yemen’s reignited civil war, pitting the ...

Kenya has confirmed one more Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections in the country to eight, Patrick Amoth said.

Australian lawmaker Helen Haines was in a critical condition on Monday after being deliberately struck by a car in Wangaratta ...

An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv with 57 aboard made an emergency landing in Sofia after a "bomb threat signal", Sky ...