Sipping green tea in his garden of roses, ex-communist party official Nguyen Van Cuong says he is "jobless but happy" after Vietnam cut 80,000 state roles this week.

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure on the Lebanese militants to disarm.

In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, the landscape has been transformed after Israeli army bulldozers ploughed through its two refugee camps in what the military called a hunt for Palestinian militants.

The Afghan interim government's chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has welcomed the decision of the Russian Federation to recognize the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" as the de jure administration ...

A delegation from the pro-Kurdish DEM party went to meet jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Sunday as his Kurdish militants prepared to begin destroying their weapons, the party said.

Rescuers searched Saturday for 27 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating floods that killed 50 people in the US state.

One hundred days after a powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on March 28, many people remained in temporary shelters. Communities are still struggling to recover, with ...

The newly opened LEGOLAND Shanghai Resort stands as a testament to LEGO Group's confidence in China, and the global toy giant remains committed to continued investment in the Chinese market, the ...

Celebrated, controversial and clearly up for a challenge, fashion designer Demna is set to step into one of the most difficult jobs in the luxury clothing industry next week as chief creative at ...

Decision-makers and strategists attending the 13th World Peace Forum have sounded the alarm over the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI).

Rescue teams were in the final stages of clearing the wreckage of a five-storey building that collapsed in Pakistan's mega city of Karachi killing 27 people, officials said Sunday.

French President Emmanuel Macron is to begin a state visit to the United Kingdom on Tuesday, where he is set to address the British Parliament and co-chair a meeting on Ukraine as London seeks to ...