Former billionaire Hui Ka Yan has been fined and faces being banned from the financial market for life.
Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera will soon be free from prison after spending six months in pre-trial detention, according to media freedom group Reporters Without Borders
Tropical Cyclone Megan has made landfall along the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory bringing wind gusts of up to 200 kilometers per hour (124 mph), heavy rain and storm surges in the sparsely populated region
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers designed to target South Korea’s capital as he vowed to boost his war deterrent in the face of deepening confrontations with rivals,...
Panama has accused Nicaragua of meddling in its internal affairs by allowing former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli to continue taking swipes at the justice system and promoting his political allies from within the walls of the Nicaraguan embassy
The president addresses thousands in Moscow after official figures suggest he won 87% of the vote.
Bodies pile up even in the "safest" areas of Port-au-Prince, a capital city reeling from gang warfare.
The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda
A senior U.S. official has visited Montenegro to offer support to the small Balkan nation seeking to join the European Union
South African rescue services searching for a missing charter boat captain are concerned about possible foul play after they discovered his boat burned and abandoned on a beach in neighboring Mozambique
Israel is urging the top United Nations court to reject the latest request by South Africa for interim orders to prevent starvation in Gaza
A state police official and her bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan
Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria’s northwest over the weekend and seized at least 100 people from their homes
To no one’s surprise, President Vladimir Putin secured another six years in power in a preordained election landslide that comes amid the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times
The mansion that was Freddie Mercury's sanctuary in London and where he lived the final decade of his life is on sale for the first time in nearly 45 years
More than a million people in Gaza are already starving, says the global body responsible for declaring famine.
The former president has approached 30 companies about the bond without success, his lawyers say.
Photographer Jakob Vegerfors captures Saturday's eruption and the steady progress of the lava flow.
Russia's leader is "sick with power", says Ukraine's president, whose country faces continued war.
Croatia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that President Zoran Milanovi? can't run for prime minister or take part in the parliamentary preelection activities of an opposition party unless he resigns immediately from his current post