Pope Francis received the head of the Anglican Church, Justin Welby, for the first time last Friday, who praised him for his stance against gay marriage and calling for united action to defend the ...
More than 50 million people will elect a successor to current Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday. Cleric Hassan Rowhani has emerged as one of the front-runners in the poll.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has suffered a setback after a third of lawmakers in the one-party state voted against him in a first-ever confidence vote.
Former Hong Kong security chief Regina Ip has called on the US whistleblower Edward Snowden to leave the city. Snowden, who leaked details of a secret internet surveillance programme, sasy he ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is due in Mexico Tuesday on the last leg of a Latin America trip before heading to the United States for a summit with President Barack Obama. Over the past ...
A UN tribunal on Thursday acquitted Serbia's top intelligence chief and his deputy of running Bosnian death squads during the wars in ex-Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins an official visit to Japan today where he will be looking for a closer nuclear cooperation between the two countries.
Taiwan has held a series of military exercises in waters off the northern Philippines in response to the Filipino killing of a Taiwanese fisherman.The exercises came after the Philippines rejected ...
