When an 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker arrived in Bangkok she faced immediate deportation -- but instead she is in the hands of the UN refugee agency, her social media savvy galvanising a global campaign that caught the Thai government flat-footed. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun fled the...

Iran will boost trade with India as the European Union struggles to find a way to circumvent a fresh US embargo on Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Tuesday. Brussels is working on a payment mechanism to keep financial transactions flowing with Iran, after the US ditched...

Four-time champion David Ferrer cruised through the opening round of the Auckland Classic Tuesday but South Korea's Chung Hyeon suffered a stunning loss to local underdog Rubin "Jose" Statham. Ferrer, 36, has retired from Grand Slams but the former world number three is making a few...

Some of the 49 migrants stranded off the coast of Malta are refusing food, one of the groups running the boats that rescued them reported Monday. "On board of #SeaWatch we are reporting episodes of people refusing food," Sea-Watch International tweeted Monday. "We fear that...