Hamas on Thursday handed over Israeli woman hostage Agam Berger, a soldier, as a third hostage-prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinian militant group got under way, an Agence ...

Swarming throngs of devotees bathed in rivers at the world's biggest religious gathering in India on Thursday, undeterred by a stampede a day earlier that killed at least 30 people. The Maha Kumbh ...

Dozens of Rohingya refugees who arrived by boat at a tourist beach in western Indonesia have been relocated to a temporary shelter after locals allowed their landing, an official said on Thursday. The ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Thursday.