As Pakistan begins to bury the dead after militants rampaged through an army-run school in Peshawar, killing more than 130 children images of the assailants have emerged, along with a warning of more slaughter to come from the Pakistani Taliban.

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.

One of the United States' top universities mistakenly told applicants they had been accepted and later had to correct itself.

A teenage girl has died in India after being thrown from a moving bus by a group of men who were sexually assaulting her.

ISIS is increasingly the "losing team" and will find it harder to use the internet to lure young men from abroad into becoming jihadists, a US military spokesman says.

Australian businessman Matthew Ng, dubbed the country's first Chinese political prisoner by his supporters, has been granted early release from prison 18 months after his landmark transfer from the mainland.

The streets of Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen are a rainbow of yellow, blue, teal, green, orange, red and more, as up to 20 rival bike sharing start-ups vie for the attention

The eruption occurred on Mount Etna when magma flowing into snow caused a violent explosion that sent stones and rocks flying into the air, emergency services said.

Gun violence is on the rise in Rio de Janeiro as drug gangs battle each other and police officers patrolling slums.

Cairo is the world's most dangerous megacity for women while London is the best and Tokyo is the safest, according to new research.

Negotiators said the agreement was the best that could have been expected given the limited agenda for the talks and the need for a global consensus.

Typically, some 25 bodies are interred each week on Hart Island. Now they are burying that many each day.

Authorities said his candidacy contravened electoral laws that bar "advocating or promoting self-determination"

The Australian lawyer representing Julian Assange has told his extradition hearing the Trump Administration offered the Australian a pardon over the WikiLeaks publications.

Alan Sugar, a British Lord, revealed on Twitter that he had secured one of the estimated 30 seats on an Emirates flight from London this week.

Authorities in Rio are investigating what they have called an international corruption scheme aimed at buying votes.

Victoria's notorious globetrotting bikie boss Amad "Jay" Malkoun has found himself at the centre of the violent abduction and murder of a former Sydney Hells Angels member in Thailand.

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

Gunman tries to kill editor before the verdict in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets was due to be delivered.

Pressure is building beneath the surface of one of the world's most densely populated nations, scientists say.

A bomb scare triggered by a note found on a Qantas plane has caused an evacuation of Queenstown Airport in New Zealand on Sunday afternoon.

Countries usually celebrate when their filmmakers are nominated for an Oscar. Not so in Hungary, where ''Son of Saul'', directed by Laszlo Nemes, had been nominated for an Academy Award.

Tokyo: The death toll from earthquakes in southern Japan has risen to 41 after a magnitude 7.3 quake struck just 24 hours after a smaller one devastated the area.

US air strikes have killed several Islamic State group leaders in northern Iraq, a US general says.

Stepping out of his legendary brother's shadow, President Raul Castro has scored a diplomatic triumph and a surge in popular support with the deal that ends decades of open hostility with the United States.