Barack Obama's presidency, from 2009 to 2017, marked a historic moment as the first African American to hold the office. His journey, roote...

Bernard Kerik, the former New York City Police Commissioner who led the department during the 9/11 attacks, has died at 69. Once a high-pro...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, died at 88, leaving behind a legacy rooted in compassion for migrants and the marginalized....

Iraq witnessed a massive uproar after news broke out that the Parliament had passed a law that sought to lower minimum age for Muslim girls...

Iraq stands at the brink of a legal upheaval that could change the course of women’s rights in the country. With a proposal to lower the ag...

A proposed Iraqi bill aimed at lowering the legal marriage age for girls to 9 has ignited widespread opposition. Critics state it would inc...

Financier Thomas Kingston, who married into the royal family, tragically passed away at 45. He was the husband of Lady Gabriella Kingston, ...

In Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe, between 4 and 6 per cent of children are said to be in child labour, and...

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90, was the moral compass of his beloved "Rainbow Nation", never afrai...

The 78-year-old six-term Democratic senator, who triumphed over Republican President Donald Trump in the November 3 presidential election, ...

The presidential dreams that the veteran leader from Delaware had harboured since childhood seemed all but over for a third time until he w...

Examining the two competing "first families" of the US election reveals the presidential candidates' differing life stories, and how their ...

Of these, there were 12 million new displacements involving children, including around 3.8 million of them caused by conflict and violence,...

Lauded by his countrymen as one of the most illustrious Peruvians of his era, Perez de Cuellar served as UN secretary general from 1981 to ...

France's third wealthiest person died at the age of 93 in his office on the Champs-Elysees.

In a patriarchal society like India, you would expect women to be better at managing home and food. The difference is that more and more of...

A Bangladeshi family of 12 from England, who went missing on the way back from Dhaka, have confirmed they are in the "Islamic State".