German Chancellor Angela Merkel and western Balkan leaders were scheduled to gather in Vienna on Thursday in a bid to find a coherent approach to tackling the biggest migration crisis to hit Europe since World War II.
The Indian army patrolled riot-hit areas of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat on Thursday after the death toll rose to seven in two days of caste-related violence.
A new umbrella group of Muslim rebels who are waging a bloody insurgency in southern Thailand called for a resumption of stalled peace talks on Thursday, but it was unclear whether the Thai military junta would recognize them.
The motive in the shooting of two Virginia journalists during a live television interview once again highlighted ongoing racial tensions in the United States.
The International Atomic Energy Agency and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on Thursday to locate the world's first bank of low-enriched uranium in the ex-Soviet nation to ensure fuel supplies for power stations and prevent nuclear proliferation.
Crowds of angry ultra-Orthodox Jewish men with long beards and wearing black-and-white garb and large black hats, protested in the streets of Jerusalem earlier this month against a new movie theater opening its doors on the Sabbath.
A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.
New ranking says 33 countries expected to face extreme shortages globally in 25 years' time
The powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah threw its weight on Tuesday behind mass protests calling for the government's resignation, deepening a crisis that started over piles of uncollected garbage in the streets of the capital but has tapped into a much deeper malaise.
India deployed paramilitary forces and imposed a curfew in the western state of Gujarat on Wednesday after violence broke out at a protest led by a powerful clan demanding more government jobs and college admissions.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologized to Tokyo after WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
The military of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is slowly easing its battle-readiness posture, officials of the Republic of Korea and the United States said on Wednesday after Seoul and Pyongyang secured a deal allowing them to avoid an armed clash.
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