French authorities rescued 107 migrants in the English Channel on Christmas Day during 12 operations along the northern coast ...

With Nepal's snowy Himalayan peaks as a backdrop, the sky above Pokhara transformed into a vibrant canvas of colours for the ...

Asia's stocks rose in thin Boxing Day trade on Thursday, extending a "Santa Rally" with key markets Hong Kong and Sydney ...

Tearful mourners gathered Thursday across Asia to commemorate the 220,000 lives lost in the 2004 tsunami. The disaster ...

Beside India's holy rivers, a makeshift city is being built for a Hindu religious festival expected to be so vast it will be ...

Fearless young opener Sam Konstas slammed an entertaining 60 on debut for Australia on Thursday, showing little respect for ...

The quiet resumption of operations at a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip last month marked a small but significant step ...

Crews of more than 100 yachts set sail Thursday on a "boat-breaking" Sydney-Hobart yacht race, with gale-force winds and high ...

At least 17 people were killed Wednesday in Syria's Tartus province when security forces under the country's new leadership ...

World number one Aryna Sabalenka says she is "fresh and ready to go" in her bid for a third straight Australian Open title, ...

Two crew are missing after a cargo ship from a company under the Russian defence ministry sank off the coast of Spain in what ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet with 67 people on board crashed near the city of Aktau in western Kazakhstan on ...