A street vendor's cooking gas container exploded Saturday night amid a Carnival celebration in the Bolivian city of Oruro, killing eight and injuring 40 others, police said. The vendor, who was cooking deep fried llama rinds, had likely dripped hot oil onto the hose of the cooking gas...

After decades of spending on infrastructure to develop poorer parts of Europe, the European Union must invest in migrants to avert a "nuclear bomb" of civil unrest, a top EU official said. Armed with a war chest of 350 billion euros ($428 billion) to spend by 2020 on its so-called...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said no opposition figures are interested to lead the National Coalition, once Syria's key opposition group and the only legitimate representative of the Syrian people. As Riad Seif, the head of SNC and the prominent dissident, is due to leave to...

Anime fans in war-torn Iraq have flocked to the country's annual festival celebrating Japanese animation and comic book culture. Thousands of Iraqis turned up on Friday for the Otaku Matsuri convention in the capital Baghdad dressed up as their favourite anime characters, local media...