Four people were killed at a theme park on Australia's popular Gold Coast Tuesday, police said, with witnesses describing how "everyone was screaming" after a raft apparently flipped on a malfunctioning water ride.
A Pakistani tea merchant with velvet eyes saw his life changed this week when his portrait spread around the Internet, sparking ardent debates on class, objectification, and the place of ethnic Pashtuns in society.
French President Francois Hollande has awarded HE Sheikh Mishaal bin Hamad bin Mohamed al-Thani, Qatar’s outgoing ambassador to France, the National Order of Merit with the rank of Commander.
In the past 24 hours, Team GB have rewritten their Olympic history, moving ahead of China into second place in the Rio 2016 medals table after winning a record-breaking five gold medals in a single day.
A safari park employee in Japan died on Tuesday after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said.
China launched the world's first quantum satellite on Tuesday, state media reported, in an effort to harness the power of particle physics to build an "unhackable" system of encrypted communications.
After a nightmare fortnight for Great Britain’s cyclist, rarely has a champion athlete looked so painfully vulnerable at such a defining moment
There has been no shortage of praise for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war, which has led to the arrest of a string of high-ranking former government officials.
Seven members of an outlawed Bangladeshi Islamist group have been charged with the attempted murder
The owners of Leviathan, Israel’s largest natural gas field, began moving on development plans delayed for years by political, legal and regulatory wrangling.
Premium-economy seats would be first at a Gulf airline; move would bring risk of cannibalising business-cabin bookings
A slim majority of French people are in favour of protests against a deeply contested labour reform the ruling Socialist Party...
