Heart-wrenching images of revered elephants and cattle eating plastic in Sri Lanka have prompted politicians to toughen pollution laws, but sceptical conservationists warn past...
Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday after more than a week of losses but traders remained anxious about central banks’ plans to continue hiking interest...
One of Japan’s best-known kabuki actors was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assisting his mother’s suicide, local media said, after both parents were found...
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims crowded Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Tuesday, the climax of a potentially record-breaking hajj pilgrimage held in fierce...
Ex-Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is Tuesday expected to be convicted and sentenced over the “dieselgate” scandal, the highest-ranking former executive to be punished over...
With nearly constant surveillance, gruelling isolation and limited family access, the treatment of the last 30 Guantanamo detainees is “cruel, inhuman and degrading,” UN...