Over the years, the trickle gradually grew into an unending stream. The late-night flashes of light on the water, signalling that the coast was clear to launch boats, multiplied until they looked like summer lightning. That the boats were not carrying fish was an open s ....

The gunman, a 58-year-old “lone white male,” fired his weapon “numerous times” before shooting himself at the Grand Theatre in Lafayette, Police Chief Jim Craft told a news conference. Craft said police know the gunman’s identity but are ....

The President spent the evening reuniting with his Kenyan family, including his elderly step-grandmother who made the trip to the capital of Nairobi from her rural village. U.S. and Kenyan flags lined the main road from Nairobi’s airport, and billboards heralding ....

The visit by Mr. Obama, whose father Kenyan government economist Barack Hussein Obama Sr. is buried in their ancestral village of Kogelo, is said to have created a wave of “Obamamania” especially in Nairobi, where hundreds of thousands of dollars have report ....

Blaming the opposition parties in the Maldives for raising concerns over the law, Mr. Adeeb said, "The opposition wants to say they will come and run military bases, but that is not the reality. We are looking at projects like Singapore's Marina Bay Sands or Du ....

 Turkey has agreed to allow U.S. planes to launch air strikes against Islamic State militants from the U.S. air base at Incirlik, close to the Syrian border, U.S. defence officials said on Thursday. The decision, disclosed a day after a telephone call between Presid ....

China Business News quoted a government source as saying that the new regulation permitting two children could come into force “as soon as the end of the year if everything goes well.” However, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, as quoted ....

FBI Director James Comey told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that the Islamic State group, which has proclaimed a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq, has influenced a significant but unknown number of Americans through a year-long campaign on social media urg ....

 Researchers at the Birmingham University in the United Kingdom have discovered that fragments of a Koran manuscript in the varsity library are among the oldest in the world, dating back at least 1,370 years, close to the time of Prophet Muhammad. Radiocarbon analys ....

Hackers threatened to leak nude photos, real names and credit card information of as many as 37 million customers worldwide of the website. With more than 37 million members worldwide, Ashley Madison claims to be the world's second-largest dating website. &quo ....