An aid convoy on Saturday reached a camp for displaced Syrians near the Jordanian border, the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said, in the first such delivery since January. "The UN and SARC are delivering humanitarian assistance to 50,000 people in need at Rukban camp...

An Indonesian air liner has crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 189 people on board. Fears for passengers and crew aboard the Lion Air Boeing 737 jet were growing as search-and-rescue workers attempted to sift through wreckage in waters up to 35m deep....

Mohammad Al Arabi's borrowed ute arrives before dawn at Beirut's Burg Hammoud sports stadium. His wife and three boys sit in the low-slung tray of the white Toyota, wedged between a tall load of suitcases, plastic bags stuffed full with clothes, a microwave, a rug and even a giant pink...

Dozens of people from across Mexico who are searching for missing relatives this week journeyed to the city of Guadalajara, where a scandal has erupted over a truck full of unidentified bodies that overflowed local morgues. A wave of violence linked to powerful drug cartels has sent the...