RIYADH (AFP) - A university in Saudi Arabia has said it will open a driving school for women, in a first for the ultra-conservative country after a ban on women driving...

BEIRUT (AFP) - Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Sunday, in the deadliest month of the...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AFP) - Bangladesh is to move to a camp at least 15,000 Rohingya refugees who have settled in a restive hill district near the border with Myanmar,...

SAN JUAN (AFP) - President Donald Trump spoke by phone with senior officials in hurricane- devastated Puerto Rico late Saturday, hours after lashing out at the mayor of San Juan...

BEIJING (Xinhua) - At day break, more than 115,000 people from across China gathered at the Tian'anmen Square at the heart of Beijing to watch the raising of the National...

OTTAWA (Xinhua) - An Air France plane en route to Los Angeles from Paris made an emergency landing Saturday in Canada after one of its engines blew out over the...

WASHINGTON (Xinhua) - U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price resigned on Friday amid increasing fire over his frequent and expensive private jet trips, becoming the first cabinet...

BEIJING (AFP) - The United State has open channels of communication with North Korea and is investigating whether the regime is ready to enter talks on giving up its nuclear...

KINSHASA (Xinhua) - An army cargo plane of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) crashed near the capital Kinshasa on Saturday morning, and there was no survivor, an...

DAMASCUS (Xinhua) - As many as 73 Syrian soldiers and allied fighters were killed within the past 24 hours in battles with the Islamic State (IS), a monitor group reported...

HAVANA - Cuba said on Friday that the U.S. decision to withdraw up to 60 percent of its diplomatic personnel in Cuba is a "hasty decision" that will affect bilateral...

KAMPALA - Military experts from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) completed this week their withdrawal from Uganda where they have been training troops.  Brig. Richard Karemire, Uganda military...

MADRID, (Xinhua) - The number of people registered as unemployed in Spain rose by 46,400 people from July to August, according to data published on Monday by the Spanish Ministry...

ISLAMABAD (Xinhua) - Police in the Pakistani port city of Karachi said on Monday that four terrorists were killed in an encounter during a police raid operation.  Those kille...

XIAMEN, China (AP) - The BRICS group of five major emerging economies called Monday for comprehensive reform of the United Nations and its Security Council to better represent developing countries, as...