(Reuters) - At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years. Troops surrounded the building...

At least 104 students have been killed and scores more injured by gunmen in a siege on an army hospital in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday.   Perwaiz Khattakh, the chief minister for the state of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Peshawar is located,...

The scourge of HIV/ AIDS is being overlooked in South Sudan, activists warn, as the government and civil society remain focused on other problems caused by the country's year-long political crisis. "The problem is, there's no proper system of treatment for those living with...

Two French fans of Paris Saint-Germain have been stabbed after the UEFA Champions League match against  Barcelona at Catalan team's home stadium, Nou Camp in Spain on Wednesday night. The stabbed fans, who had been attacked by two suspects wearing...