Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide 'lockdown' will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) claimed today. The government plans to order ...

Al-Shabaab has appointed a new leader, only days after Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in an air strike south of Mogadishu. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP. Al-Shabaab, Somalia's Islamic extremist group, has named a new leader after confirming the ...

At the U.S. Open Saturday, Federer was thumped by Marin Cilic, a 6-foot-6 Croat, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 45 minutes. Federer, 33, looked a step slow while Cilic, 25, played with unusual ease for a man competing in the second Grand Slam semifinal of his ...

Some newspaper reports indicate that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made an appeal to the local population in the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan to support its struggle for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. It has also been ...

With the Kashmir valley facing one of the worst floods in its history, the catastrophic situation has taken a heavy toll on life and property. Rising Kashmir's Junaid Kathju, Syed Rizwan Geelani, Manzoor-ul-Hassan, Rahiba R Parveen and Sumaiya Yousuf- ...

Maryam al-Khawaja, who campaigns against abuse in Gulf state, jailed for further 10 days despite UN expressing concerns. Last updated: 06 Sep 2014 21:50. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. Maryam al-Khawaja has criticised ...

Kiev: Ukraine said Saturday a truce was largely holding in the war-battered east, despite fears it may ultimately fail to halt a pro-Russian insurgency still threatening to tear the country apart. The 12-point pact signed on Friday is the first backed by both Kiev ...

Jammu, Sep 6 (PTI) Drawing parallel between last year's Kedarnath tragedy and the Jammu and Kashmir's flood, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today hoped that his government will be able to keep the death toll less by better and speedy rescue operation.

Russia has warned that there will be a reaction if the European Union imposes fresh economic sanctions against it over the crisis in Ukraine. The comment by the Russian foreign ministry came as a tentative ceasefire agreed between Kiev and separatist ...

Mohammed Morsi Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, May 8, 2014. Tarek el-Gabbas—AP. The move is part of the government crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood.

MONZA, Italy (AP) — Lewis Hamilton broke Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg's recent stranglehold on pole position by qualifying ahead of the championship leader at the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday. Rosberg had taken four straight poles and six of the ...

MANAMA - A Bahraini judge on Saturday postponed the start of the trial of human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja by 10 days and ordered that she remain in custody, her lawyer said. Khawaja, who has joint Bahraini-Danish citizenship, has been charged ...

Iraqis inspect bodies found in a mass grave and displayed for identification in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, northeast of Baghdad. The victims are believed to have been killed by Islamic State fighters. Iraqis inspect bodies found in a mass grave and displayed for ...

Despite this, Prime Minister David Cameron said Wales had "done the UK and Nato proud" as the summit ended in Newport yesterday. It brought together more than 60 world leaders, including US President Barack Obama, along with 4,000 delegates amid ...

KINGSTON, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- An oil slick has been detected on the waters where a private plane crashed off the coast of Jamaica Friday while the wreckage of the plane has not be found, Jamaica Defense Force (JDF) said Friday evening. There have been ...

The Moon is full on Monday. Since this is the closest full Moon to the autumn equinox, it is known as the Harvest Moon. Because of its position in the sky, the full Moon rises near sunset for a few days in a row. Before the invention of the electric light this was an ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his visiting Australian counterpart Tony Abbot Saturday said that the two countries would continue their cooperation in dealing with the tragedies of Malaysia Airlines flights MH370 and MH17. Najib expressed his ...

The Vladivostok warship, a Mistral class LHD amphibious vessel ordered by Russia to the STX France shipyard. AFP Photo/ Jean-Sebastien Evrard. Russian warship decision set for October. Published: 06 Sep 2014 10:21 GMT+02:00. Updated: 06 Sep 2014 ...

Alibaba's sale could exceed Visa Inc's $19.7 billion IPO in 2008, the biggest US initial offering to date. Photo: Bloomberg. New York: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the e- commerce company whose fortunes surged along with China's economy, plans a historic ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says the government aims to send a search team to the crash site in Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 before winter sets in to gather physical evidence to prove it was shot down. Najib said the government has "pretty ...