Bahrain has temporarily freed a female activist who has accused her government of torture in detention, rights groups said Monday.   

Japan’s leader has scored a major victory in national elections that returned his ruling coalition to power in decisive fashion.   

Air pollution, water contamination and exposure to man-made chemicals claimed nine millions live last year, a major study concludes.  

LAHORE AFP Oct19, 2017 -Pakistan on Thursday extended the detention of the chief suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks for a month, government officials said.   

MANILA REUTERS Oct 20-Three Russian warships, including two anti-submarine vessels, docked in Manila on Friday to unload what navy officials said was weaponry and military vehicles donated to the Philippines as part of a new defence relationship.&nbs

 Brussels (dpa), Oct 20, 2017 -   German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte have dismissed a plea by British Prime Minister Theresa May to move talks over the terms of Britain’s departure from the bloc o

Tennis star Serena Williams is secretly making plans to wed the millionaire entrepreneur father of her baby daughter in a romantic ceremony in New Orleans, DailyMailTV can exclusively reveal.  

Islamabad (dpa) – A Pakistani anti-graft court indicted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and his son-in-law on corruption charges on Thursday.   

NEW DELHI AFP Oct19, 2017-Despite a dramatic fall in the infant mortality rate, 15,000 children aged under five still die each day around the world from preventable diseases, a UN report said Thursday.  

THE HINDU, 19th OCTOBER, 2017-In a sweeping marathon address that lasted over three hours, President Xi Jinping unveiled his vision of China’s future of achieving “moderate” prosperity in the next four years, and emerging as an adva

 Wellington (dpa), 19 Oct 2017 -  New Zealand finally has a new prime minister, a month after the country’s election.   

Kyushu, (Daily Mail), 19 October 2017 -  An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off southern Japan on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said.  

US President Donald Trump told the widow of a soldier killed during an ambush in Niger “he knew what he was signing up for,” according to a lawmaker who accused him of insensitivity.   

REUTERS, 18 October, 2017-The Kurdish independence vote championed by their leader Masoud Barzani was a gamble that may have made his quest for a homeland more elusive than ever.  

REUTERS, 18th OCTOBER, 2017-South Korea is considering levying its own sanctions on North Korea as the isolated state ramps up tension with its missile and nuclear provocations, the South’s vice foreign minister said on Wednesday, but no decisi

China has the resolve, confidence and ability to thwart any attempt by self-ruled Taiwan to declare independence, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, prompting Taipei to retort that only its people could decide their future.

REUTERS AFP, 18 October, 2017-Rights groups on Wednesday urged the European Union and Japan to consider halting their funding for the election panel in Cambodia, if the ruling party succeeds in a bid to dissolve the main opposition party ahead of nex

Two separate suicide and gun attacks on government forces in Afghanistan left nearly 50 dead and more than 200 wounded, officials said Tuesday, the latest devastating assault on beleaguered security forces.   

LISBON REUTERS Oct 16- At least 36 people died in wildfires raging through parched farmlands and forests in Portugal and another three in neighbouring northwestern Spain on Sunday and Monday.  

DPA, 17th OCTOBER, 2017- A judge on the Spanish National High Court ruled Monday that two leading figures in Catalonia’s independence movement be sent to pretrial detention without bail on charges of sedition and agitating for the region’

REUTERS, 17 October, 2017 - The U.N. refugee agency urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to speed up vetting of up to 15,000 Rohingya refugees “stranded” near the border after crossing into the country from Myanmar and move them further inland to

MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia refused on Tuesday to bow to the Spanish government's demand that it renounce a symbolic declaration of independence, setting it on a political collision course with Madrid later this week.

A woman who accused President Donald Trump of groping her nearly a decade ago has reportedly subpoenaed him for all of the documents from his presidential campaign about every woman who accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior.   

The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia’s capital rose to 231 with at least 275 injured, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the African nation, police and hospital sources said.   

REUTERS, 16th OCTOBER, 2017- Protests erupted after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner over opposition leader Raila Odinga in the vote. The Supreme Court later voided the result. Odinga has withdrawn from a re-run on Oct. 26, leaving Kenyat

Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn-backing youth wing has voted to quit Nato - branding it an ‘imperialist institution’ presided over by ‘fascist’ Donald Trump.  

 Vienna (dpa), 16 Oct 2017 - Austrian voters opted for a turn to the right on Sunday as young immigration hard-liner Sebastian Kurz and his conservative party won the parliamentary election, while the far right made strong gains.   

Hillary Clinton lumped President Donald Trump in with disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein during a TV interview taped Friday in Britain, saying that the problem of sexual assault is widespread.   

The death toll from a massive weekend truck bomb in a busy shopping district of Mogadishu surged to at least 137, police said Sunday, warning it could rise further after one of the worst-ever attacks to hit war-torn Somalia.  

 “Nothing more than ash and bones.” That grim description of how some victims were found underscores the horror of the wildfires that swept through and devastated Northern California.