Moscow yesterday hosted international talks on Afghanistan aimed at kickstarting direct negotiations between Kabul and the Taliban militant group, both of whom sent delegations. Russia hopes “through joint efforts to open a new page in the history of Afghanistan,” Russian Foreign Minister…

A copy of Stephen Hawking’s doctorate thesis signed in a shaky hand was the highlight of an auction of the British physicist’s personal items…

Twenty-five years ago Irvine Welsh’s debut novel “Trainspotting” burst out of the housing schemes and back alleys of post-industrial…

About half a million people have died violently in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan due to the US “war on terror” that was launched following the September 11 attacks in 2001, according to a study released Thursday. The report by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International…

South Korean President Moon Jae-in sacked his top two economic officials yesterday, the government said, as the world’s 11th-largest economy struggles with slowing growth, rising unemployment and persistent income gaps. Finance minister Kim Dong-yeon and presidential chief of staff for policy…

The death toll in Zimbabwe’s horrific bus crash that occurred Wednesday along the Harare-Mutare highway has risen to 50. According to police, 40 people died on the spot, 5 on their way to hospital while 2 more passed on Thursday morning. Three more succumbed to their injuries late Thursday, bringing…

One person was killed and two others were injured in a rush hour stabbing rampage in downtown Melbourne yesterday, that saw police shoot a knife-wielding suspect near a burning vehicle. Police said officers “initially responded to a report of a car on fire” in the city centre at 4:20 pm…