#state media

Heavy rain drenched a swathe of what had been drought-gripped southern and eastern China, killing 24 people and ...

U.S. authorities have launched an investigation after the finding of dozens of bodies in a mass grave in Liberty ...

The Cairo Criminal Court issued on Saturday a 30-year prison sentence in absentia against Egyptian former Finance ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and his son and heir apparent celebrated the "successful" outcome of his trip to China ...

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign a transition of power deal on Sunday, saying it would push the ...

Egypt`s anti-graft agency opened a new corruption investigation into ousted President Hosni Mubarak`s former chief of ...

Ming Ming, the world`s oldest panda, has died of old age, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. She was 34. Ming ...

Malaysian customs officials said on Saturday they arrested two Iranian men and seized heroin worth $12.6 million in ...

China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conducted a joint anti-terror drill in the restive western region Xinjiang, where ...

Up to 43 people drowned on Friday when a ferry capsized in the Nile River in a southern Egyptian province, state media ...

A number of civilians were killed in NATO air strikes on Thursday on the Libyan town of Gharyan, 90 kilometres (55 ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday ordered the release of all detainees arrested in a wave of protests, ...

Egypt`s ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been placed in detention for 15 days, prosecutors said Wednesday shortly after ...

Coalition warplanes attacked Colonel Muammar Gaddafi`s stronghold of Sabha in southwest Libya on Sunday, the country`s ...

China`s celebrated Shaolin Temple is training young kungfu disciples to play football in the far-off hope of reversing ...