(Reuters) - Fighting between India and Pakistan paused on Friday after days of heavy shelling and gun battles across their disputed Himalayan border, the worst skirmishes between the nuclear-armed rivals in more than a decade. Despite escalating tensions, Pakistan...

OSLO (Web Desk / Reuters) - Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousufzai and the Indian children s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi have won the Nobel Peace Prize. "Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzay has already fought for several years for the right of girls to...

  The death toll has risen to 31 as a result of protest violence in Turkey amid anger over ISIL siege of Syria's Kobani town. Three more people have died in random fire in protests in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province. The protests were in support for...

The US-led air campaign in Iraq and Syria is proving a boon to weapons makers, sending their share prices soaring and bolstering political support for higher defense spending. The open-ended air war against the Islamic State group will mean billions in sales for bombs and...