Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has boarded a plane bound for the United States, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested US-China relations....
New statistics point to an uptick of gun purchases among women in the United States. The National Shooting Sports Federation reports an annual increase of...
Somali soldiers brought to Uganda for extra training are heading back to their country to fight the armed group al-Shabab. Hundreds are being trained as...
South Korean authorities say they plan to crackdown on the illegal smuggling of so-called "human flesh capsules". The pills contain parts of human foetuses or...
Thousands in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have marked the second anniversary of a government crackdrown on the so-called 'Red Shirt' protesters in 2010. The government-ordered...
Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics, tells Al Jazeera the regional and international variables have not been...
Tariq al-Hashemi, the Iraqi vice-president, has been placed on an Interpol "red notice". Hashemi, currently in neighbouring Turkey, is accused of "guiding and financing terrorist...
