Lebanese Australian Samah Hadid feels lucky to be alive after the Beirut port explosion destroyed her flat.

Parties have a maximum of four attempts to form a government or face a new election within three months.

She spent three decades telling Japanese women what to wear as a fashion editor. Her new task is to try to interest them in a drier topic: fiscal policy.

A huge fire has engulfed a high-rise apartment block in the United Arab Emirates, sending residents fleeing into the street as embers rained down on the city.

Islamic State launched a major counter-attack on the city of Kirkuk on Friday as Iraqi and Kurdish forces pursued operations to seize territory around Mosul.

But Jakarta is planning to build separate jails that remove convicted drug offenders and terrorists from the general prison population.

It seems ludicrous but pro-Iranian propaganda and a restrained military response has convinced many Iraqis the US is actually in cahoots with the terrorist group

Wellington Phoenix goalkeeper Glen Moss reckons the club is on the verge of something special which helped convince him to sign a two-year extension.

As funerals began for the 148 victims of the Pakistani Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to crush the insurgents and lifted a moratorium on the death penalty.

Potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton knows a political gift when she sees one.

Harsher measures should be taken against asylum seekers if they take a holiday in their country of origin, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview on Sunday.

Uber, the US online ride-hailing service, has been banned from operating in the Indian capital of New Delhi with immediate effect after a young female passenger was allegedly raped by one if its drivers.

North Korea on Monday asked the United Nations Security Council to add the issue of torture by the US Central Intelligence Agency to its agenda and to establish an investigation to ensure those responsible are held to account for human rights abuses.

Thailand has reported the first confirmed Southeast Asia cases of microcephaly linked to mosquito-borne Zika virus.

We're verging on a new stage in our experience of war, where it is almost a live spectacle.

The gunmen are believed to have taken 170 hostages.

A linguist has shared a list of the mistakes we regularly make while using the English language

Foreign families have been tangled up in a legal battle over how to apply new surrogacy restrictions in Mexico.

Local authorities in Cambodia are preventing 13 members of a Vietnamese ethnic minority from going to the capital Phnom Penh to claim asylum as refugees, despite an accord with the government and the United Nations, UN agencies said.

Sea Shepherd activists could be liable for up to $US2 million in costs after being found in contempt of court for anti-whaling actions.