Eyewitnesses have recounted scenes of chaos and confusion after a religious festival in northern India ended in tragedy when scores of people were killed in a crowd crush. At least 121 people died – almost all of them women – and 35 others were injured when overcrowding at a sermon in…
Sierra Leone officially banned child marriage on Tuesday with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to…
The Chinese coast guard detained a Taiwanese fishing vessel in waters off China’s southeast coast on Tuesday night, in the…
During a visit to a local farm while working with development agency USAID, Ugandan entrepreneur Juliet Tumusiime realized that…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in…
As French citizens get set to vote in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday hundreds of contenders have bowed out…
Voters in Britain are primed to end a 14-year era of Conservative rule, in a momentous general election that…
A club of Eurasian countries spearheaded by China and Russia to advance their leaders’ vision of an alternative world order…
Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that…