Former US president Barack Obama returned to the public spotlight Monday, saying he hopes to spend the next phase of his life helping

The ruling party lawmakers responsible for public sufferings will not get nomination for the next general election, Finance Minister AMA Muhith says at a meeting in New York.

A US-backed alliance of Arab-Kurdish forces entered the key jihadist-held town of Tabqa yesterday as they pursued their campaign

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all sides to exercise restraint yesterday in a telephone call about North Korea with US President

An 18-year-old Israeli-American man, in custody in Israel after being arrested there last month, was hit with US charges on Friday for

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday held a brief first meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White

Denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula can still be achieved peacefully because of Washington's new engagement with China, US

Russia has told the United States it regrets Washington's opposition to letting its inspectors take part in an investigation into a chemical

The US state of Arkansas has carried out its first execution in more than a decade despite criticism that its plan to put to death several

Canada announced a pilot test Thursday that would see names removed from applications to work in its civil service, hoping this will

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis yesterday said in Israel that there can be "no doubt" Syria has retained some chemical weapons and

The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a US "priority," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said yesterday, as media reports

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday accused Iran of 'alarming ongoing provocations' to destabilise countries in the

Fox News on Wednesday severed its relationship with Bill O'Reilly, sacking its biggest star and America's most-watched cable news

US President Donald Trump will attend three summits in Asia in November, Vice President Mike Pence said in Jakarta during a visit to the

Even though few people live in the Artic, some seas in the region are heavily polluted with plastic because of an Atlantic ocean current

A man arrested for a shooting spree in the central California city of Fresno on Tuesday in which three white men were

When US President Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an "armada" as a warning to North Korea,

By simulating a space mission to Mars, an international team of researchers notes that eating salty food led to greater hunger than thirst, at least in the long term. The reason seems to be a protective mechanism that conserves water in the kidneys.

Google yesterday launched a re-imagined version of its free Earth mapping service, weaving in storytelling and artificial intelligence