Florida has ordered a machine recount of votes for state governor and senator following Tuesday's closely fought mid-term elections, officials say. Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said that as unofficial results in both races had fallen within a margin of 0.5%, a recount was required by law.…

At least 12 army soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on Saturday on a small military base in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, officials said. The Taliban left behind explosives that then killed four tribal elders who had come to help collect the soldiers' bodies, according to Afghan…

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday urged dozens of world leaders marking a century since the end of World War I to come together for a joint “fight…

The terror infrastructure in Pakistan remains intact and around 160 terrorists are waiting across the Line of Control (LoC) to infiltrate into Indian territory, a senior Army officer said Sunday. Lieutenant General Paramjit Singh, who took over as the general officer commanding of the Nagrota-based…

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to more than 200, the health ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said it had recorded 201 deaths from the virus and that 291 cases have been confirmed since the outbreak began in August. About half of the cases…

A woman has been arrested in Queensland in connection with the "strawberry scare" where sewing needles were found hidden inside fruit. Police…