In China’s sprawling Xinjiang region, where the population is growing and cotton farming is booming, a key river has been running dry in summer.

A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University has uncovered a hoard of real-life buried treasure at the Crusader castle of Arsur (also known as Apollonia), a stronghold located between the ancient ports of Jaffa and Caesarea ...

Tensions over immigration bedevil many nations, but what makes the clash here particularly striking is that most of Singapore’s population was already ethnic Chinese.

An Egyptian athlete has claimed the country's Olympic team was given fake Nike uniforms.

Several competitors, including British rower Zac Purchase (pictured) have caused security headaches by tweeting high resolution images of their Locog accreditation, just days before Friday's opening ceremony.

In decades of furtive meetings in tea houses, mosques and universities, members of Egypt's underground Muslim Brotherhood spoke ardently of a country governed by Islamic law. Now that

Liberal thinktank says rightwingers are aggressively targeting the continent with an anti-abortion and anti-gay agenda

For some Iraqi refugees living in Syria, it feels like a sequel to a nightmare.

Thousands left stranded at Beijing airport as authorities warn more rain and flooding may be on its way

Impoverished North Korea is gearing up to experiment with agricultural and economic reforms after young leader Kim Jong-un and his powerful uncle purged the country's top general for