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Two members of Mohamed Nasheed's international legal team, including famous human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, will travel to Maldives in September second week to meet the former Maldivian president who has been sentenced to 13-year imprisonment under the...

The UK, on sheer numbers of migrants accepted, was the seventh most-generous country, accepting 38.6% of asylum seeker applications in 2014.

A 19-year-old boy in the US has died after accidentally shooting himself in the throat while taking selfies with a loaded gun.

The two, who are in their mid 20s, were students of a madarsa in northeastern Chittagong.

Single mothers are far more likely to live in poverty than single fathers and their condition deteriorates with each additional child they have, new research has found.

An Egyptian court sentenced three Al-Jazeera reporters to three years in prison on Saturday, despite a global campaign calling for their release.

Everyday cleaning and cosmetic products such as soaps, toothpaste, sunscreen and shampoos contain millions of plastic particles, according to new study.

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Pakistan Peoples Party leaders Yousuf Raza Gilani and Makhdoom Amin Fahim.

Scientists have discovered that Roman-era Egyptian mummy portraits used the pigment Egyptian blue, invisible to the naked eye.

On Wednesday, the US said "no decision" has been made with respect to disbursement of next tranche of Coalition Support Fund to Pakistan.

The latest incident is the second in 2015 when a gunman has fired shots in the area which is a hub of Indian restaurants and other Indian shops.

The death toll from a warehouse blast in north China's major port city of Tianjin has risen to 135 while 38 people were still listed missing

In February this year, Cameron had vowed to use all means at his disposal to hunt down militants such as "Jihadi John".

Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz was killed on August 18 while travelling in a vehicle near Mosul, Iraq.

The Islamic State group has beheaded the 82-year-old former antiquities director for the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief and a monitor said.

Melbourne being ranked first cemented its positions with a perfect score of 100 in healthcare, education, and infrastructure and within the culture and environment basket.