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President Donald Trump says he has nominated Kay Bailey Hutchison, a former Republican senator from Texas, to be the US ambassador to NATO.

For the thousands of Chinese soldiers stationed in Hong Kong, the pen, it appears, is mightier than the sword.

Cardinal George Pell, one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican and Australia's most senior Catholic, has been charged with historic child sex offences, police said Thursday.

British children's writer Michael Bond, the creator of the much-loved fictional character Paddington Bear, has died at the age of 91, his publisher HarperCollins said on Wednesday.

China on Wednesday put up a strong defence of its “all-weather” ally Pakistan saying it was at the frontlines of the fight against terrorism, a day after India and the US asked Islamabad to rein in cross-border terror. "China thinks that the international...

Donald Trump's administration hit China Tuesday over its rights record, placing the country alongside Sudan and North Korea on a list of the world's worst human trafficking offenders.

Islamic State ordered shopkeepers and traders to price goods in its currency, the dirham, as of Tuesday and set the value at 1,000 Syrian pounds ($1.80) per dirham, seeking to steer its own monetary policy even as its territorial grip is shaken.

Any attempt by India to become US ally to counter China will not be in its interests and could even lead to "catastrophic results", a state-run Chinese daily said as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump held their maiden meeting.

It remains a distant dream for India but China’s newly launched bullet train can run at a maximum speed of 400 kmph, with a consistent speed of 350 kmph. If such a train was to ply on Delhi-Mumbai route, it would cover the distance of 1400 km within four...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in the US on the second leg of his three-nation tour, is meeting 21 leading American CEOs, including Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella.

An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked a security post in western Afghanistan, killing at least 10 police and wounding another three.

An AirAsia flight to Malaysia was forced back to Australia on Sunday due to a technical problem, with one passenger saying the plane was "shaking like a washing machine".

Britain's parliament was hit by a "sustained and determined" cyber attack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country's health service.

Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters were battling a blaze in east London on Saturday after flames engulfed a third-floor apartment.

North Korea said on Friday the death of US university student Otto Warmbier soon after his return home was a mystery and dismissed accusations that Warmbier had died because of torture and beating during his captivity as "groundless".

Eight Emirati princesses were convicted of human trafficking by a Belgian court on Friday and were given suspended jail terms and fines in a case stemming from their treatment of servants at a Brussels luxury hotel nearly 10 years ago, their lawyer said.