Vietnamese poured into the capital on Sunday to bid farewell to Vo Nguyen Giap, the general who masterminded historic defeats of France and the United States to become one of the 20th century's most important military commanders.
Crowds lined the...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday reached a preliminary agreement on a bilateral security pact that now depends on approval by Afghanistan's tribal leaders.
The pact, announced jointly by Kerry and Karzai after...
Mozambique's Labour Minister Helena Taipo has expelled a Portuguese football coach for insulting the country, a former colony of Portugal.
Diamantino Miranda, the coach of the Costa do Sol club in the capital, Maputo, must leave by Saturday.
Last month, he...
Real Madrid have denied a report published by Marca newspaper which says world-record signing Gareth Bale has suffered a slipped disc in his back.
Bale has started just once for Los Blancos since arriving from Premier League side Tottenham for...
England manager Roy Hodgson insisted "the job is only half done" after victory over Montenegro left them needing to beat Poland on Tuesday to secure World Cup qualification.
Montenegro were beaten 4-1 at Wembley, but Ukraine's win against Poland means...
Egypt have been asked to provide security guarantees following Ghana's request to move next month's World Cup playoff out of Cairo because of safety fears.
Fifa have responded to Ghana's request to relocate the match to a neutral venue by...
Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai extended talks on Saturday as part of a last-ditch effort to negotiate a security pact that would determine, among other things, how many U.S. troops stay after 2014.
"There are...
Italian calls for Europe to do more on the migrant crisis grew on Saturday and Malta's prime minister said the Mediterranean was becoming a "cemetery" after another boat sank off Sicily, killing dozens more people.
Italian and Maltese navy ships...
Japanese authorities may have underestimated by 20 percent the radiation doses workers got in the initial phase of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a U.N. panel.
A big earthquake and tsunami in...
For four generations Banesa Blemi's family, descendants of Haitian immigrants, put down roots as low-wage sugar cane cutters in their adopted homeland, and came to consider themselves Dominicans.
Then, last month the country's Constitutional Court issued a decision effectively denationalizing...
