Wed Jan 7, 2015 12:04am EST
Syrians have overtaken Afghans as the largest refugee population aside from Palestinians, fleeing to more than 100 countries to escape war in their homeland, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Politics
Tue Jan 6, 2015 7:26am EST
Religious extremism could derail Myanmar's much-vaunted reform process, the Buddhist-majority country's first Catholic cardinal, Charles Maung Bo, said on Tuesday.
January 04, 2015 3:10 PM
AirAsia officials said four more bodies were recovered from the Java Sea on Sunday as Indonesian emergency teams continued searching for the wreckage of a passenger jet that disappeared one week ago.
LONDO . Sun Jan 4,2015 5:57am EST
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday he would like to bring forward a planned referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union from 2017 if possible.
January 02, 2015 11:48 AM
LONDON—
Human traffickers are using a new tactic to combat a change in Italy’s approach to dealing with asylum-seekers, leaving a new wave of refugees, mainly from Syria, abandoned in ships steaming toward shore.
Pope Francis urged people of all religions and cultures on Thursday to unite to fight modern slavery and human trafficking, saying in his first Mass of 2015 that everyone had a God-given right to be free.
January01,2015 12:23AM People around the world welcomed the New Year with fireworks, glitter, song and dance, and well-wishing.
January01,2015 12:23AM People around the world welcomed the New Year with fireworks, glitter, song and dance, and well-wishing.
SHANGHAI Thu Jan 1, 2015 4:08am EST
A stampede killed at least 36 people during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, possibly caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building overlooking the city's famous Bund waterfront district.
December 31, 2014 9:43 AM
In a second high-seas drama this week, six Italian coast guard officers boarded a cargo ship abandoned in the Adriatic Sea with more than 900 migrants on board and managed to steer it to an Italian port early Wednesday.