Niger has been shaken by its first terrorist attacks since it began aiding regional efforts against Islamists. Twin suicide bombings killed at least 20 people at a uranium mine and a military barracks. The attacks were claimed by a group who said ...

British police are investigating the murder of a soldier who was attacked with a meat cleaver near an army base in South London. The victim was hacked to death with a cleaver in the Woolwich district in the southeast of the British capital on Wedn...

As protests over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters raged, Taipei ordered a ban on the hiring of new workers from the Philippines. The move is likely to do the most damage to the manufacturing industry in Taiwan, which relies ...

With wrestling facing the axe from the Olympics, Iran, Russia, and the US have formed an unlikely alliance to save it. To help the cause, the top wrestlers from all three countries met for exhibition matches in New Yorkk's Grand Central Station in...

As melting ice opens up previously inaccessible areas of the Arctic, powers including China and Russia have started jostling for the region's resources. In Iceland, desire to cash in on the changes is mixed with fear of looming environmental disas...

Human rights activists are reeling after the mayor of Osaka Torus Hashimoto said some 20,000 sex slaves, so-called "comfort women," from Korea and China were part of a  "necessary system" to calm the nerves of stressed-out Japanese soldiers d...

A survivor has been found in the rubble of a garment factory, 17 days after its collapse left more than 1,000 people dead. The woman, who identified herself to rescuers as Reshma, had cried out for help as recovery teams sifted through the remnan...

Faced with the targeted killing of 22 media workers in 16 months, journalists in Somalia have decided to pick up guns rather than put down their pens. Al Jazeera talks to one Mogadishu journalist who now goes armed to protect himself from what the...

Indonesian anti-terror police killed seven men and arrested another 13 after raids and gun battles in west and central Java. Authorities suspect the men of being linked to a plan to bomb Myanmar's embassy in Jakarta as revenge for recent attacks o...

Egypt's highest court has cleared 24 former regime officials over the "camel battle" during the 2011 uprising, when protesters in Cairo were attacked by Hosni Mubarak loyalists riding horses and camels. Families of those who died in the attack and...