Police say a rubber farmer has been shot dead in the southern Thai province of Sonkhla, in the latest attack in a region that has been in the grip of an ethnic Malay Muslim insurgency for over a decade.
Police say heavily armed rebels have killed two Indian police officers in an ambush on a highway they were guarding hours before the visit of the top elected official of an insurgency-wracked northeastern state.
Since Taiwan industrialized in the 1960s, its workers have strived to do whatever their employers asked, including putting in free overtime, out of fear of being replaced.
As journalists passed along a darkened corridor at the Guantanamo Bay lockup, a detainee displayed a hand-painted sign through the one-way glass of his cellblock: A white question mark against a blue background, the dot in the shape of a padlock.
A U.S. think tank says recent images appear to show that China has installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its man-made islands in the South China Sea.
A senior Indonesian cabinet minister says the government is not losing the fight against radicalism despite the success of hardline Islamic groups in attracting hundreds of thousands of people to protests against the capital's Christian governor.
U.S. actress Amber Heard appears set to return to Australia's Gold Coast to star in the movie "Aquaman" a year after she was convicted in the same tourist town of smuggling her pet Yorkshire terriers Pistol and Boo into the country.
One of the stranger chapters of Mexico's drug war has had a relative happy ending, with residents of a southern town freeing the mother of a drug gang leader and the criminals releasing a kidnapped engineer.
Discord has surfaced on the eve of a European Union summit where 27 of the bloc's leaders are seeking a united front in exit negotiations with Britain.
Chileans are in an uproar over a Cabinet minister being given an inflatable sex doll with a note saying "to stimulate the economy" taped over its mouth.
With the over-saturation of media coverage regarding the United States presidential elections, and now the President-elect Trump transition, it is appropriate for OpsLens to re-focus and update its readership regarding American troops deployed to Iraq.
A shaky truce between the Syrian government and rebels grasping for territory in war-torn Aleppo was back on track late Wednesday and set to start "within hours," rebel leaders said, after a cease-fire fell apart earlier in the day.
Venezuela's foreign minister threatened to enter Argentina's foreign ministry through a window if necessary, but she still didn't get into a meeting of South American countries that suspended her nation from the Mercosur trade bloc.
Social media lit up Wednesday after a business leader presented an inflatable doll to Chilean Economy Minister Luis Felipe Cespedes at a formal dinner.
The biggest high-tech fiasco in United Nations history -- the creation of a computerized management system known as Umoja -- is likely to cost another $104 million beyond its current $439 million budget before it is finished at the end of 2018 -- a full six years beyond its original completion date, according to the most recent estimates.
The Islamic State may have taken possession of a Syrian military surface-to-air missile system when the terrorists recaptured the historic city of Palmyra, the top U.S. general in Iraq told Pentagon reporters Wednesday.