The number of Iranians seeking asylum abroad has grown steadily since the crushing of protests over the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday.

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Stone-throwing supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi clashed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Friday ahead of a referendum on a new constitution that has divided the Arab world's most populous nation.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a key ally of the premier, resigned on Friday after having been charged with breach of trust, barely five weeks ahead of general elections. "I am not legally bound to

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One of Britain's richest women, whose corpse was found rotting under a pile of bedding, died as a result of drug abuse, a coroner ruled at an inquest Friday. Eva Rausing, 48, was married to

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Italy has summoned the Indian ambassador to urge India's Supreme Court to reach a decision before the year-end Christmas holiday over where two Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen should be tried. The sailors,

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A major report on climate change being compiled by the United Nation's climate science panel was on Friday leaked online in what appeared to be an attempt by a climate sceptic to discredit the panel.

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The worst of the cyclone that battered the Pacific island state of Samoa overnight, killing at least three people, appeared to be over and it was not expected to hit the devastated capital, Apia, again,

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A man stabbed 22 primary school students in a knife attack in China on Friday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults. The attacker "has been detained", said a spokesman for the Guangshan

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Russia is developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the military announced Friday, in an apparent attempt to remind the United States of Moscow's rocket capacities. Revealing the existence of the project for the first time,

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World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu on Friday urged India to keep up its blitz of "promising" reforms, saying they can help the economy return to the nine percent growth needed to combat poverty. The

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