The election Wednesday of Park Geun-hye as South Korea's president signals a new period of cautious — and conditional — rapprochement with North Korea, the nuclear-armed police state that Park's predecessors have utterly failed to tame.

Britain is giving an extra £15 million in aid to help tackle the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria, the Government announced today.

Vaccination programme suspended after five women are shot dead

Britain part of international coalition drawing up plans to provide air and naval power to the opposition

Foreign Secretary William Hague today hailed a potential turning point for Syria as he met the leaders of a coalition opposed to president Bashar Assad.

Operatives allowed themselves to be bullied by a murderous government

British aid to India is to be brought to an end in 2015 in recognition of the booming sub-continent’s “changing place in the world”.

The Government is to cut its longstanding commitment to provide foreign aid to India because the country's growing economy means it no longer needs British support, it emerged today.

With Sandy blown, the race must go on. But it's certainly not making life as a campaign manager any easier. When Mitt Romney turned a recent event into a disaster relief rally, aides worried that supporters would ruin the photo-op by arriving without supplies to donate.

Rapper will have to explain how fund backed by celebrities managed to burn through $16m in two years

Embattled minister overruled department to help controversial leader Paul Kagame

A traumatised population has suffered long enough. Countries who have influence in Syria should be doing much more to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid

The UK government has activated a £2 million emergency plan to help tackle a cholera epidemic sweeping through Sierra Leone.