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Pakistan among top 80 happiest countries, beats India, Afghanistan: UN report
Pakistan jumped up five spots from 2017
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China's Jiangsu vows to step up smog war after Jan spike
Governor Wu Zhenglong promises 'stricter strategies with higher standards' to control emissions
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Syria regime enters key rebel-held Ghouta town: monitor
Regime forces assaults Hammuriyeh and are able to control parts of it, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
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'Panama Papers' law firm shuts down operations
At least 150 investigations were opened in 79 countries to examine possible tax evasion and money laundering
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Slovakia's Fico: Anti-migrant leftist haunted by dead journalist
Announcing his resignation, Fico insisted he would propose a new prime minister from his own Smer party
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Two killed as Guinea teachers call off month-long strike
Strikes have paralysed the country's education system and fractured relations between teachers, parents and the state
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Slovenian PM Cerar resigns as pressure mounts ahead of election
Cerar says to step down in the wake of a Supreme Court decision to annul the result of a September referendum
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Israeli manslaughter soldier seeks cut in jail term
Shooting in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron was caught on video by a human rights group and spread widely online
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UN set to threaten arms embargo on South Sudan
Draft resolution to renew the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission for a year
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German woman lands in Dubai jail for tampering with parking ticket
The offender confessed that she had got a paid parking ticket and tried to use the same ticket later
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Kuwait shuts its doors to expats with diabetes, high-BP
For the first time the country has banned people with non-infectious diseases from entering the state
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Eleven-month-old shot dead by two-year-old brother in US
According to parents, their son found their gun in the bedroom and shot the infant
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Doctors seek civil defence’s help in saving man’s private part in Dubai
'Industrial clamp' was removed in a 30-minute Herculean task after the patient’s member somehow got lodged within it
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Russian lawmaker promises tough reply from Moscow to May
Matvienko labelled British actions towards Russia a provocation
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Rohingya Muslim couple falls in love at the world's largest refugee camp
Usma and Sadiq, who met at the water pump, have managed to find happiness
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Merkel narrowly elected to fourth term as German chancellor
Lawmakers in Berlin's glass-domed Reichstag voted 364-315 with nine abstentions for her
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Britain expels 23 Russian diplomats over chemical attack on ex-spy
Move is hostile and unjustified action, Russia’s embassy in London retorts
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Top US general in Afghanistan urges 'tired' Taliban to talk peace
Ashraf Ghani last month unveiled a plan to open talks to end the 16-year-old war
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Pro-Assad forces shell Turkish positions in Syria
Militia fighters used artillery to target the Turkish positions in the town of Marea
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Britain set to announce action against Russia over spy poisoning
Moscow has denied any involvement
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Erdogan hopes Kurdish-held Afrin 'will fall by evening'
Turkish bombing raids killed 10 fighters loyal to the Syrian government
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Iran jails Ahmadinejad's vice president over corruption
The 48-year-old had been investigated for irregularities while in office
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Pakistani man who made India home for 27 years deported
Siraj says strayed into India as a child
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Prominent Iranian academic sentenced to 18 months in jail
The charges stem from an interview the professor gave to DW’s Persian language service
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When Saddam gassed 5,000 Kurds at Halabja
The town is the victim of a chemical weapon attack
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Taliban stops short of rejecting Afghan president's peace plan
Peace talks reflect an internal debate over the merits of engagement with a government seen as illegitimate
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Stephen Hawking: a brief history of genius
Hawking dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe
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Scientist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
'We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today'
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Three men charged with Minnesota mosque bombing
FBI agents also charges suspects with possession of assault rifles and attempted bombing of Women's Health Practice
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Florida prosecutor seeking death penalty for accused Parkland gunman
Cruz is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder
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UN receives 138 allegations of sexual misconduct
Sharp decrease in allegations recorded for the MINUSCA mission in the Central African Republic
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Buenos Aires subway workers go on strike over asbestos claims
Metro de Madrid opens an investigation to determine if there were irregularities in the sale of the cars to Argentina
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Tillerson sacking spells doom for Iran nuclear deal
Tillerson urges Trump to listen to his European allies and to preserve Iran deal intact
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Trump fires top diplomat Tillerson, names CIA chief as successor
Senior White House official says, Trump wanted to reshuffle his team with a view to launching talks with North Korea
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Russia warns of reprisals if UK acts over spy attack
British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia is highly likely to be behind the attack
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Indian man gropes woman in Dubai Metro
Victim says he caught me off-guard when he slipped his right hand between my shirt and purse, which I was holding'
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Saudi Arabia's 'Highway 10' is world's longest straight road
Australia’s 146-kilometre Eyre Highway topped the list previously
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Moroccan street cleaner wins beauty contest
Sanaa Maatat does not consider changing her job
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Turkey jails man for murder of Syria activist and journalist daughter
Barakat was a prominent political opponent of Syrian leader Bashar al Assad
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Girl's picture goes viral after sending it to stranger
The act ends up helping raise over $33,000 for a child suffering from leukaemia
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Iran academic says sentenced to 18 months for 'propaganda'
Zibakalam is known for his criticism of Iran's foreign policy
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Female students start learning ‘cinematic arts’ as 300 theatres opening in Saudi Arabia
Student of visual and digital production at Effat University says 'Everything is about to change,'
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Bangladesh court sentences 39 to death for murdering official
A number of those travelling with the local party leader were injured in the brutal assault
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Nepal's first female president wins second term
Bhandari first five years in office have been largely uncontroversial
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Bus crash kills 38 in Ethiopia: state media
Ten passengers survived but suffered 'serious and minor injuries'
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More than 350,000 dead: Syria's war in numbers
Killed include 106,390 civilians, of which 19,811 were children and 12,513 women, according to British observatory
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Editor of National Geographic admits to magazine's racist past
Goldberg wants to confront the use of racism as a political strategy, and prove the publication is improving
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Maoist rebels kill 8 Indian paramilitary troopers in restive Chhattisgarh
Blast in a remote forest region also injured three others who were airlifted to state capital Raipur for treatment
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'Punish a Muslim Day' letters in UK prompt terror investigation
At least six communities have reported receiving anonymous letters encouraging people to act violently towards Muslims
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Stone Age people in South Africa unharmed by supervolcano eruption
scientists
found evidence that the hunter-gatherers at these sites
continued to thrive