Mario Dimaculangan shares a toilet with 130 other inmates in one of the Philippines’ most overcrowded jails, and conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime.
Indonesia executed four drug convicts yesterday but 10 others due to face the firing squad were given an apparent reprieve in a confused process one lawyer condemned as a “complete mess”.
Four makeshift hospitals and a local blood bank in Syria's battered Aleppo city have been hit by air raids in the past 24 hours, a group of doctors said Sunday.
Veteran Steve Cummings has been called up to the British cycling team for the Olympic road races in Rio after Peter Kennaugh failed to recover in time from a broken collarbone.
A Bahraini court will hand down its verdict next week in the government's bid to dissolve the main opposition group Al-Wefaq, accused of harbouring "terrorism," a judicial source said on Monday.
Pakistan’s Mohamed Amir marked his return to first-class cricket in England with three wickets as Somerset collapsed at Taunton yesterday.
A diverse range of breakthrough technologies could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, according to the Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2016 list published last week by the World Economic Forum.
Rio state authorities declared a “state of public calamity” Friday over a major budget crisis in order to release emergency funds to finance the Olympic Games due to begin in August.
Iraq’s possible loan accord with the International Monetary Fund may unlock at least $15bn in aid this year and next, central bank chief Ali al-Allaq said,...
Environmentalists warned Friday that Mexico's vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise, was close to extinction as the government reported that only 60 were now left.
The “Reflect Your Light with Kutnu” project, organised under the patronage of Dr Sare Davutoglu, spouse of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, will have its world premiere in Qatar on May 10.
Taiwan has charged two air traffic control officers with causing a TransAsia plane crash that killed 49 people in 2014, the first prosecutions in the country's worst air disaster for a decade.
