A train derailed and plunged into a ravine in Congo, killing around 60 people and injuring hundreds on a deadly rail link in the oil-producing Central African state, sources said on Tuesday.

A roadside bomb ripped through a bus carrying military personnel and their families in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul on Tuesday, killing four people, after the Army stepped up operations against K

A Pakistani-born American citizen defiantly pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square, saying that Islamist extremists would continue to attack the United

Archaeologists and art restorers using new laser technology have discovered what they believe are the oldest paintings of the faces of Jesus Christ’s apostles. The images in a branch of the catacombs of St Tecla near St Paul’s Basilica, just outside the walls of ancient Rome, were painted at the end of the 4th century or the start of the 5th century.

Charles Zevallos, a politician in Peru’s Amazon basin, often wins kisses from female supporters, but things have moved to a whole new level as women at his rallies have started throwing their underwea

China, no stranger to product quality scandals, will extend its crackdown to statues of Mao Zedong, the founder of the modern communist state, sold to tourists.

Kyrgyz security forces clashed with ethnic Uzbeks near the troubled southern city of Osh on Monday and at least two people were killed, officials and human rights groups said.

Turkish commandos backed by helicopters deployed along the Iraqi border on Monday after 11 soldiers died in weekend clashes with Kurdish rebels in one of the worst attacks in recent years in Turkey’s

Britain’s Graeme McDowell kept his composure in tough scoring conditions to end a 40-year title drought by Europeans at the U.S. Open with a gutsy one-shot victory on Sunday.

Iran has barred two UN nuclear inspectors from entering the Islamic Republic, adding to tension less than two weeks after Tehran was hit by new UN sanctions over its disputed atomic programme.