The head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards on Sunday warned of retaliation against the Gulf’s strategic Strait of Hormuz, US bases in the Middle...

The editor of French magazine Closer defended on Friday publishing topless photos of Prince William’s wife Catherine and said she was offering them...

The Yemeni police shot dead a protester and wounded five others on Thursday when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the US embassy in...

Tens of thousands of revellers hurled 120 tonnes of squashed tomatoes at each other on Wednesday, drenching the streets in red in a gigantic Spanish...

Taliban Islamist insurgents beheaded 17 civilians, including two women, who were holding a party with music in a southern Afghanistan village,...

Sustained fighting in Sudan’s South Kordofan state has killed several dozen government troops and five rebels, the insurgents claimed on Monday after...

Suspected Al Qaeda militants early Tuesday blew up a pipeline pumping liquefied gas to Yemen’s southern Balhaf export terminal, causing a complete...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras embarks on an uphill diplomatic battle this week to convince European partners to extend a deadline for major...

On Monday, a South African court convicted the last of 20 men accused of high treason for a plot to kill Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of the...

Deadly fighting rocked the birthplace of the Syrian uprising on Monday as rebels doggedly resisted a regime onslaught unleashed in the key...

Israel is an artificial ‘outgrowth’ in the Middle East that ‘will disappear,’ Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said ahead of rallies on...

Civil war in neighbouring Syria is tearing apart the once tight-knit Druse community on the Golan Heights. Angry arguments between supporters and foes...