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Assange team hopes UK could declare him persona non grata
Assange is trying to use his Ecuadorian diplomatic status to force Britain to declare him persona non grata
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Pope apologises to sexual abuse victims for comments that 'wounded many'
His comments were seen as trying to dismiss the credibility of accusers and was widely criticised by victims
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Pence says US embassy in Jerusalem to open by end of 2019
Urges Palestinians to resume long-stalled peace talks with Israel
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Exiled Maldives leader accuses China of 'land grab'
The new government had to sell projects to repay debts
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Turkey says campaign against Kurdish YPG in Afrin will be swift
So far there has been no indication of major gains on the ground by Turkey-backed forces in Afrin
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Oil slick off China coast trebles in size
Spill area is an important spawning ground for species
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Protesters demanding jobs clash with police in Tunisian town
Gafsa recruitment results cause mass outrage among unemployed Tunisians
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On a Rio beach, a man's home is his castle
He doesn't ask for money, only that people exchange what they take
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Merkel readies for intense German coalition talks after tight SPD vote
Social Democrats eager to join hands with the Merkel's conservatives
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Chinese cities move to ease residency curbs, fuel property demand
Authorities in cities say main aim is to lure talent to make their labor pools more attractive to companies
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Ecuador president calls Julian Assange a 'problem'
WikiLeaks founder seems to be overstaying his welcome
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Raids and rescues: Nobel laureate Satyarthi film exposes India child slavery
60 per cent of the more than 23,000 trafficking victims rescued in India were children in 2016, government data shows
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Inequality report reveals richest one per cent made 82% of wealth created last year
Wealth of billionaires has grown six times faster than that of ordinary workers since 2010, according to Oxfam
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India not working to isolate Pakistan, claims Modi
The Indian prime minister invites Islamabad to join hands with New Delhi to fight poverty and disease
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Mahmoud Abbas to ask EU to recognise Palestinian state: minister
'we should not wait until the Americans present their plan', said Palestinian foreign minister
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Motorists of the world take heart: even popes get flat tires
Pope Francis has shunned bulletproof limousines used by his predecessors
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Saudi-led coalition to give $1.5 billion in Yemen aid, expand port capacity
In Yemen 8.3 million people are entirely dependent on external food aid
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Landslide kills 13 in Colombia
Rescuers will search Monday to see if other vehicles in the area could have been affected
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Three civilians killed in southern Thailand market bomb: police
Monday's bomb at a morning market in Yala town was the first deadly attack by suspected insurgents
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US shutdown extended as crunch vote delayed
There have been four government shutdowns since 1990
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London brings fathers of Mashal, Malala together
Receiving a hero’s welcome, Iqbal Lala rues politics of ideology overtaken by one of interests
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Pope brings down the house, joking with cloistered nuns
Some Peruvians, however, did not find it funny comparing a 'gossiping nun' to members of a guerrilla group
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Pence arrives in Israel as Trump's Jerusalem move reverberates
The visit was initially scheduled for December before being postponed
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'Pray for me': Kabul hotel guest's plea during bloody siege
The guest posted a desperate plea on Facebook: "Pray for me. I may die"
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Turkish strikes kill 8 civilians in Afrin region: monitor, Kurds
The casualties were occurred in air strikes on the village of Jalbara
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Kabul hotel attack death toll rises to 43, including 14 foreigners
Taliban claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack
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France urges UN meeting as Syria fighting escalates
French FM presses Turkey to halt its offensive against Kurdish militia who have been battling jihadists
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Erdogan warns of 'heavy price' for protests against Syria operation
Erdogan gave the warning after pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party called on people to take to the streets
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20 lawmakers sacked in India for allegedly taking illegal benefits
India's president sacked 20 lawmakers for holding jobs in government despite laws forbidding the practice
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Nine-year old Chinese girl carries disabled older brother to school on her shoulders every day
Parents of the two siblings are also physically challenged, leaving the girl as the sole backbone of the family
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Pence tells Egypt's Sisi that US would back two-state solution
United States would support a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians if the two sides agreed to it
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Iraq condemns German woman to death for belonging to IS
She was hanged for providing logistical support to IS and helping it to carry out crimes
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Turkey presses Syria offensive as rockets hit town
Four rockets fired by the YPG hit a town in southern Turkey on the Syrian border
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Saudi Arabia calls for extending non-OPEC cooperation
Faleh said oil producers have not yet achieved their target of reducing world stocks to normal levels
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100 in Indonesia's Papua feared dead from malnutrition, measles
The government and military have sent medical teams and are supplying villagers with medicine
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US Army helicopter crash in California kills 2 soldiers: official
An investigation is ongoing into the crash of the AH-64 Apache helicopter in National Training Center
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Pope urges end to violence against women
Pope Francis, 81, arrives in Peru, the second and last leg of a week-long South American visit
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New Mumbai metro will beat traffic, but at what cost?
Environmentalists unsuccessfully went to court to stop the destruction of thousands of trees and a biological hotspot
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Johnson says UK should welcome Trump
Trump's administration deserves 'respect and recognition' rather than 'infantile denigration'
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As Trump begins second year, women stage nationwide protests
Activists say Trump’s policies on birth control and equal pay protections have propelled many women into activism
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In New York, tourists left high and dry as Statue of Liberty shuts down
In Washington, open-air parks and monuments remained open despite the shutdown
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At least 17 killed in New Delhi factory fire
The fire trapped nearly two dozen workers on the upper floors
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Afghan interior ministry says Kabul deadly hotel attack is over
Taliban claim responsibility for attack that left six people dead
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Trump laments 'nice present' of shutdown on inauguration anniversary
The president lashed out at Democrats over the collapse of budget negotiations as lawmakers seek to thrash out a deal
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Ed Sheeran announces engagement
British singer and his girlfriend have reportedly been dating since 2015
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Russia-led Syria peace congress to be held Jan 30: negotiator
Russia is set to co-host the summit with Iran and Turkey for setting up a new constitution for post-war Syria
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Muslim nations call for making Middle East a WMDs-free zone
Pakistan raises issue of Indian atrocities in Kashmir
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Four US, Canadian captives freed in Nigeria
"All of them are a good condition of health," police said
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'Pope' of French cuisine Paul Bocuse dies age 91
Bocuse helped shake up the food world in the 1970s with the Nouvelle Cuisine revolution
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Erdogan says Turkey has launched new ground operation in Syria
The new operation has been launched to oust Kurdish militia from a northern Syrian enclave

















































