The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for investigations into atrocities alleged to have been committed by Syrian rebels.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged to end drione strike on militants in Pakistan “very, very soon”, on the last day of his visit to the country.

"I think the programme will end as we have eliminated most of the threat and continue to eliminate it," Mr Kerry said in a television interview.

The lead singer of the Grammy Award winning rock band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian, challenged a full capacity crowd, at one of their Hollywood Bowl concerts, to ima

"This has been a huge farce,"

A criminal court in Libya sentenced the education minister from Gaddafi’s era, Ahmed Ibrahim, to death today, for murder and inciting violence during the 2011 uprising that ended in the disposition of Gaddafi.

The United Nations’ intervention force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has given residents in Goma 48 hours to disarm and anyone armed beyond that time will be considered a rebel.

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has been involved in electoral fraud during the July 2013 national elections, suggests recent research by Human Rights Watch.

The US Secretary of State has announced that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will aim to achieve a “final status agreement” over the coming 9 months, after talks between the two sides concluded in Washington.

India’s ruling Congress-led coalition unanimously agreed on the formation of a new state in the Telangana region of the southern Andhra-Pradesh state, officials said today.

The Syrian government has captured a key district in the strategically important city of Homs.

Syrian state media said the army has “restored security and stability to the neighbourhood of Khalidiya”, a former rebel stronghold.