World

Brussels: The act of thumbing a lift has been in and out of favour over the years, romanticised in great works of literature chronicling the travails of...

Washington: Kurt Volker, the US special envoy for Ukraine, has resigned, according to a US official, becoming the first casualty in the rapidly growing...

Burkina Faso: Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused...

Toronto: Hundreds of thousands of people have joined climate strike marches across Canada, with almost 100 events planned in cities and towns. Protesters...

Athens: A baby and a toddler were among seven people who died when a boat carrying migrants and refugeessank in the eastern Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard...

Caracas: The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to set up an international fact-finding mission to document violations in Venezuela,...

Port-au-Prince: Haitian police used tear gas and live ammunition on Friday to disperse protesters in the capital, witnesses said, as anger over the economic...

Kabul: Polls have opened in Afghanistan's presidential election amid fears of violence following threats by the Taliban to disrupt the election...

Washington: India's Moon rover Vikram, which lost contact moments before it was to touch down on the lunar surface earlier this month, had a "hard...

Harare: Independent Zimbabwe’s first leader Robert Mugabe will be buried at his rural home over the weekend, ending a tug of war between the government...