The installation of pedestrian traffic lights showing female figures rather than male in Australia may have confused some about what it was actually trying to achieve.
North Korea attempted to sell a form of lithium metal, a key material for developing miniaturized nuclear weapons, to unidentified international buyers last year, according to United Nations investigators tracking dictator Kim Jong Un's weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.
The father of a dead Indian man who pledged allegiance to ISIS and was allegedly involved in a train attack that left 10 people injured on Tuesday has refused to accept his body — saying a “traitor” is no son to him.
A 42-year-old Australian man who allegedly posed as Justin Bieber online to solicit explicit images from children has been charged with more than 900 child sex offenses, police said Thursday.
The United States is considering deploying up to 1,000 soldiers to Kuwait as a reserve force in the fight against the Islamic State terror network in the region, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Cops have launched a manhunt for Michael Smith after he left the high security Maghaberry Prison near Lisburn, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, where he was being held.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested two Christians in late February as part of a brutal crackdown on Catholicism in the country’s West Azerbaijan Province.
In the increasing welter of warfare in northern Syria, one of the biggest U.S.-based humanitarian organizations operating in the area has become collateral damage, at least temporarily—and perhaps a sign of worsening relations between the government of Turkey and the Trump Administration.
Israel's parliament this week approved a bill that would bar foreign activists who call for economic, cultural or academic boycotts of either Israel or the Jewish settlements in the West Bank -- a move that drew comparisons to President Trump's "extreme vetting."
Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
An American Mixed Martial Arts instructor who was jailed for four years last week for having sex with two teenage girls in Singapore will not face stronger penalties, according to the country's public prosecutor.
Kim Jong Nam's son appeared to break his silence Tuesday in a video posted to YouTube, giving some of the first clues about the whereabouts of the victim's immediate family after the murder last month.
Shocking footage of a brazen sex-attack at The University of Sydney has been released by New South Wales Police despite initial attempts by the University not to have it made public.