BEIJING: Thousands of Chinese legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause on Monday over plans to give President Xi Jinping a lifetime mandate to mould the Asian giant into a global superpower. China's rubber-stamp parliament met in the imposing Great Hall of the People for an annual...

Turkish security forces held nearly 1,000 undocumented migrants on Saturday as they were attempting to illegally cross the country’s borders, the military said on Sunday. Border Guards arrested 881 people as they attempted to enter Turkey from the Syrian border, a daily report issued...

MILAN (Reuters)- Fiorentina captain and defender Davide Astori died of a sudden illness Sunday morning at the age of 31, the Serie A club said, leaving Italian football in a state of shock. Serie A announced that all of Sunday’s matches, including the derby between AC Milan and Inter...

Rescue teams have recovered the black boxes of a plane that crashed last month in the mountains of southwestern Iran leaving 66 people dead, official media reported on Sunday. “The box that recorded flight parameters and the one with conversations in the cockpit have been handed over...