Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as a "serious" contender to become the next US secretary of state, a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

Warships from the United States, Canada and Australia have been drafted in to help earthquake relief efforts in New Zealand after a 7.8 tremor devastated parts of the South Island, officials said on Wednesday.

Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal called his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Tuesday to find out how Nepalis could exchange Indian rupees they hold in the now banned denominations.

India is to use indelible ink to prevent people from exchanging old notes more than once, the government said Tuesday, a week after the withdrawal of high-value banknotes from circulation in a crackdown on ‘black money’.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday action on climate change has become ‘unstoppable’, and he expressed hopes that US President-elect Donald Trump would drop plans to quit ...

The British government has no overarching plan for Brexit and may take another six months to agree a negotiating strategy, according to a leaked memo published by The Times on Tuesday.

Russian investigators said on Tuesday they had detained Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev in a bribery case linked to a $5 billion acquisition by state oil giant Rosneft ...

German police on Tuesday carried out sweeping raids across 10 states in a probe against an Islamist group suspected of propagating hate and inciting 140 youths to fight alongside jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

After two winters without snow, Kabul residents are anxiously scouring the hills for the first flakes, wary that the depletion of this major source of water further fuels instability in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc on Monday announced measures aimed at halting the spread of ‘fake news’ on the internet by targeting how some purveyors of phony content make money: advertising.

A senior leader of the Awami League (AL) of Bangladesh yesterday assured the country that a non-partisan and acceptable election commission (EC) will be constituted to supervise the 2019 general election.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned yesterday that Islamic State militants driven out of Syria and Iraq could set up in his country, and if that happened he would forego human rights obligations to keep his people safe.