India will make its second mission to the moon in 2018, the Indian Space Research Organization announced this week. The spacecraft is the Chandrayaan 2 and...
Alan Joyce, boss of the Australian airline Qantas, has been named the world’s most influential LGBT business executive in an annual listing. He was chosen for...
Hundreds of thousands of Thais have lined the streets of Bangkok to pay their last respects to the late king. A symbolic funeral urn was taken...
Voting is under way in Kenya amid tight security in a re-run of the presidential election, which is being boycotted by the main opposition. Police have...
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution to extend an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Both Russia and Bolivia voted against...
China has revealed its new senior leadership committee, breaking with tradition by not including a clear successor to President Xi Jinping. The omission cements Mr Xi’s...
Austria’s conservative leader says he has invited the far right for talks to form a coalition government. Sebastian Kurz said his People’s Party and the Freedom...
Catalan authorities will not follow orders from the Spanish government if Madrid moves to reassert control over the region, a senior official says. Foreign affairs spokesman...
The death toll from last Saturday’s huge truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 358, the information minister says. Some 56 people are...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe as a “goodwill ambassador” to help tackle non-communicable diseases. New WHO head Dr Tedros...
Police in Brazil say they have arrested 108 people in the biggest operation ever against paedophiles in Latin America. Suspects were arrested in 24 states and...