World

Sri Lanka's top court orders independent Elections Commission to halt preparations for the January 5 vote

Up to a million Uighurs have been placed in political re-education camps in the Xinjiang region

Magufuli ordered soldiers to buy up the nuts at $1.44 per kilogramme

Progress stalls on US President Donald Trump's signature foreign policy initiative

He makes announcement a week after new round of sanctions

Khashoggi’s killing has provoked global outrage but little concrete action by world powers against Saudi Arabia

The blaze is 'the deadliest wildland fire in California history,' says Sheriff

Israeli air strikes killed three Palestinians and destroyed a Hamas TV building

Once hailed as a champion in the fight for democracy, Suu Kyi has been stripped of a series of international honours

New enrollments for the 2017-18 school year slumped 6.6 per cent compared with the previous year

Pakistani women were 43% less likely to use the internet than men: ICT

It says emotional desire to bolster national identity more important than facts

747 cargo pilot shares snaps of thousands of cities that pass by shooting stars, Milky Way, and Northern Lights

Canadian premier says his government is in discussions with Pakistan

Couple convicted of being members of a British terrorist group

Arvind Kathpalia, a pilot and senior executive with the national airline, blew positive for alcohol

About 50 security forces personnel were killed in attacks late on Sunday by Taliban fighters on checkposts

The fighting aircraft stormed a Taliban center in Qarluq area of Dasht-e-Archi district

Subjects discussed include the situation in the Middle East, notably Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and North Korea

Asia-Pacific leaders meet in Singapore to focus on trade tensions

The country's best competitors hail from geo-cultural Kurdistan

Maoist militants unleash a string of deadly attacks ahead of the vote in mineral-rich Chhattisgarh

A pro-government alliance, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are pushing to seize Hodeida

About 500 United States and South Korean marines begin the drills

IDF aircraft fires more than 40 missiles in the area, according to witnesses

Hunt will also seek to build support for UN efforts

The company that produces the hologram has issued more than 3,700 certificates for "cross-dimension" marriages

In an analysis by Johns Hopkins University and Save the Children using forecasts based on current trends

Myanmar denies allegations genocide and ethnic cleansing, saying security forces were battling terrorists

Moscow last month delivered S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria, where Israel has struck Iranian targets

Saudi minister acknowledge that so far there is no agreement on reducing production among OPEC and non-OPEC producers

Ankara views Kurdish People's Protection Units as a 'terrorist' group linked to Kurdish rebels

Over 1,500 US soldiers who fought in World War I are buried at the hillside cemetery in Suresnes

UN chief Antonio Guterres warns of 'parallels' between the present day and the unstable and dangerous 1930s

Khashoggi, a critic of ruling Saudi regime was murdered at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate by team sent from Riyadh

President Sirisena triggered an unprecedented constitutional crisis when he sacked Prime Minister Wickremesinghe

Suicide attacks in recent years have caused deepening anger among Hazaras minority of Afghanistan

Young girls are being conditioned to think about cosmetic surgery fuelling body insecurity, says author Susie Orbach

One of the protesters got within metres of the rear of motorcade after jumping over barricade

Macron and his wife welcomed some 70 monarchs, heads of state and prime ministers

Leaders sought to ease tensions caused by a defence row

The gulf nation beat popular tourist destinations such as France, Italy, Singapore, Thailand including US

More than 100 cases of needled stawberries were reported across the country in September

With some of the bloodiest conflicts in history

Number of combatants killed in the 10 days of clashes in Hodeida exceed 400

The war rang the death knell for a Russian empire already in bad shape

'We've gone through lots of wildfire over the years, this is the worst I've seen personally'

The United Arab Emirates has thrown its support behind Saudi Arabia, its main ally, over the Khashoggi affair

Some 95,000 residents are evacuated in Ventura County as the wildfires intensifies

Treatment of Albanian Greeks has long strained bilateral relations between Albania and Greece