Seven million people turned out to vote in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election. That's about 58 percent of the electorate. Saturday's vote will bring the first democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by decades of conflict. The Afghan ...

Twenty years on from the ethnic violence, Mathias, a Hutu and Silas, a Tutsi live side-by-side in reconciliation village. Silas was just eleven-years-old when machete-wielding men came to his house and killed his family. Coming to terms with his loss has been ...

The bullet holes in the car which was carrying two foreign journalists in Afghanistan are a reminder of the violent end which met photographer Anja Niedringhaus. She was travelling in the car along with fellow AP journalist Kathy Gannon on assignment near ...

He is 77-years-old. She is a decade older. But both Pope Francis and Britain's Queen Elizabeth seemed in fine form as they met for the first time, joined by the monarch's 92-year-old husband Prince Philip. At the Vatican on her first foreign trip since 2011, the ...

Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hits Panama (USGS); Francois Hollande set to put forward Pierre Moscovici as a candidate to become a European Commissioner, a government source says (AFP); Rebels in eastern Libya will reopen the seized Zueitina oil port ...

Francois Hollande set to put forward Pierre Moscovici as a candidate to become a European Commissioner, a government source says (AFP); Rebels in eastern Libya will reopen the seized Zueitina oil port first once they have reached a final deal with the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) – Persistent weakness in China's manufacturing sector reinforced fears of a sharper-than-expected slowdown at the start of 2014, and some government economists think authorities have already started boosting spending to put a floor ...

Inflation in the eurozone fell to 0.5 percent in March down from 0.7 percent in February and its lowest rate since November 2009. It is the sixth consecutive month that the rate of inflation has been below one percent – the European Central Bank's “danger ...

The Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared over two weeks ago crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, with no hope of any survivors. Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the news at a media conference. Based on new British satellite ...

The Rolling Stones have cancelled their concert in Perth in Australia after the death of Mick Jagger's girlfriend, fashion designer L'Wren Scott. The 49 year old was found dead in a New York apartment yesterday in what was believed to be suicide although the ...

Scientists say they have discovered new evidence to support the Big Bang Theory of the origins of the universe. They believe they have detected the gravitational waves which rippled through space just fractions of a second after the universe came into being.

In Paris, pollution has reached such hazardous levels the French government has restricted car use. From Monday, only vehicles with specific number plates will be able to enter the capital. It is only the second time since 1997 such curbs has been introduced, ...

In Paris, pollution has reached such hazardous levels the French government has restricted car use. From Monday, only vehicles with specific number plates will be able to enter the capital. It is only the second time since 1997 such curbs has been introduced, ...

Former Rwandan soldier Pascal Simbikangwa has been jailed for 25 years over the country's genocide, in a landmark verdict in Paris. Under French law, Rwandans suspected of involvement in the wave of killings in 1994 can be tried in a French court.

PESHAWSAR/QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Attacks in the volatile Pakistani cities of Peshawar and Quetta killed a total of 19 people on Friday, frustrating hopes of a lasting peace deal with insurgents fighting to topple the government. In Peshawar, a ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Heavy gunfire raged for two hours in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday morning, residents said, and explosions were heard at the Giwa barracks, where the army has detained hundreds of Islamist insurgent ...

A robot has stolen the show at the opening of this year's CeBIT technology trade fair in Hannover. It welcomed British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who attended the event. Cameron later announced an extra 54 ...

That is the theme of this year's International Women's Day, being celebrated today, March 8, across the world. Lamenting discrimination against women and girls worldwide, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said: “Where men and women have equal rights, ...

The EU has announced an asset freeze's on Ukraine's ousted President Victor Yanukovych and 17 other senior officials and family in his entourage. They are all blamed for embezzling state funds. The list includes Yanukovych's son and his closest aides, ...

It replaces Tokyo, which was number one for years but has dropped down to joint sixth in the annual rankings compiled by researchers at the Economist Intelligence Unit. The reasons for Singapore's rise were its strong currency, the high price of utilities and ...