The death toll from the collapse of four residential buildings in an industrial district of the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang has risen to 22. State news agency Xinhua reported that rescuers pulled six survivors from the rubble by the time their search was wrapped up at around 1 a.m....

A suspected car bomb on Monday killed at least 10 police amid increased Taliban attacks on the besieged capital of the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand, with the toll expected to rise, a security official said. The blast, in the city of Lashkar Gah, killed 10 police officers, with at...

Thousands of Yemenis, many of them armed, gathered at the United Nations headquarters in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday calling for an international investigation into an air strike on a wake this weekend that was widely blamed on Saudi-led forces. The attack - that killed at least 140...

(Zaman al-Wasl) “My prize got to me complete,” so posted Sara al-Houraniyeh, one of the volunteers with the civil defense in Deraa, on her Facebook page in response to the news that the White Helmets of Syria did not win the Nobel Peace prize as expected.  Sara, the daughter of...