Thousands of Egyptians have held giant rallies denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, two years after Egypt's revolution began.

Regime warns of  strong physical countermeasures against neighbour following sanctions

The top governing body has warned that the regime will defy the UN by conducting a third nuclear test, and made clear that its rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the US.

The move, which comes in defiance of a resolution issued by the UN on Tuesday, is likely to once again raise tensions in the region over the North Korean missile program

The global dole queue will stretch to a record 202 million this year as another five million people are thrown out of work around the world, the International Labour Organisation warned today.

Senior UN officials opened a new round of talks in Tehran today in hopes of restarting an investigation into allegations that Iran carried out atomic bomb trigger tests and other weapons-related studies.

North Korea is vowing to strengthen its war defences amid concerns the country may conduct a third nuclear test.

If there was ever a case of fiddling while Rome burns, then the sadly dilatory global response to the threat from climate change is surely it. Even as weather patterns become measurably more extreme the world over; even as the polar ice caps melt back ever further each summer, opening up newly navigable shipping lanes; even as average global temperatures continue their inexorable rise; still, attempts to forge an international consensus make only glacially slow progress. Yet as research published in this newspaper today makes clear, the longer we take to act, the more unaffordable remedial action becomes.

Britain is to transport foreign troops and equipment to Mali amid efforts to halt an advance by rebels.

African mission plea for more firepower after being humiliated by rebel advance in DRC

The Google chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in North Korea today saying he wanted a first-hand look at the country's economy and media.

A serving colonel in the Nepalese army has been charged with two offences of torture after being arrested in the UK.

The Sun newspaper has published a full-page advert in an Argentinian paper warning the country's president to keep her “hands off” the Falkland Islands.

Argentinian president launched a fierce attack on British "colonialism" and demanded the return of "Las Malvinas", in a letter published as an advert