Afghan taekwondo star Marzieh Hamidi told AFP the death threats she has received, forcing her to live under French police protection, show how effective her stinging criticism of the Taliban has been.

Air pollution in the Thai capital forced the closure of more than 350 schools on Friday, city authorities said, as Bangkok was ranked the world's seventh-most polluted major city by air quality ...

Father Bashar Basiel moved freely in and out of his parish in the occupied West Bank until Israeli troops installed gates at the entrance of his village Taybeh overnight, just hours after a ceasefire ...

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first brought to the Nazi ...

A federal judge  blocked Donald Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States on Thursday as liberal states scored their first victory against the new president's hardline ...

US congressional Representative Tim Burchett said in an interview Wednesday that an admiral -- whom he did not identify -- had told him of an alien craft moving at incredible speeds in the sea.

A deadly knife attack on a play school group in Germany, where an Afghan man was arrested at the scene, reignited a bitter ...

It’s the race that stops Sydney Harbour, with four iconic ferries set to make waves in the annual ‘Ferrython’ on Australia ...

Melbourne Airport Rail would be put back on a fast track under a federal government plan to pour more cash into the $10bn ...

Victoria’s Basketball Australia Under-20 National Championships squad has been hit hard by injury, with four elite talents ...

Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has condemned the actions of a man who threw a glass bottle at a woman sleeping rough in ...

A family run cafe in Sydney’s east, whose owner is the son of a holocaust survivor, has become the latest business to be ...