Second-division football players in Greece held a sit-in protest at the start of a game over the spiralling death toll among migrants trying to reach the European country by sea. Players from rivals AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos sat on the field and observed two minutes of silence...

Four miners trapped underground for 36 days in a collapsed Chinese gypsum mine were pulled out late Friday, a rescue hailed as a "miracle" in a country with a poor track record on industrial accidents. The final operation to save the men trapped more than 200 meters (660 feet) underground took...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition will join peace talks that have opened in Geneva Friday after assurances from U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the United Nations that demands to release the detainees and to stop the bombing will be addressed in the preliminary negotiations,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 100 families fled southern neighborhoods of Moadamiyet al-Sham to the northern district, local activists said as Syrian regime forces stepped up attacks to capture the western suburb of Damascus. The town's media center said regime helicopters had dropped at least 36...