Train driver Martin Akersten says he and more than a dozen others at the Roslagsbanan line have started wearing skirts in the summer as a protest against the train company's uniform policy, which doesn't allow shorts.
In one of his first decisions after assuming charge, Pakistan's new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has changed the name of his office.
Indians have been advised to avoid visiting three states in Nigeria where emergency has been declared to combat militancy.
Hackers attacked Turkish government systems and obtained confidential details of staff in PM Tayyip Erdogan's office in support of days of anti-government protest.
A British soldier has been fined and an officer demoted after admitting abusing civilians in Afghanistan.
Guards patrolling a prison colony in Russia's north saw a feline on the fence and it seemed to be carrying something. On a closer look, they found a few cellphones and chargers taped to the cat's belly.
Officials say a 22-year-old man was shot dead during an anti-government protest in a city near the border with Syria.
A union federation began a two-day strike on Tuesday as anti-government demonstrations in which two people have died stretched into a fifth day.
A senior Afghan official says security forces have rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross after an hour-long gun battle with insurgents at a guest house in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
An 8.2-magnitude earthquake under the Sea of Okhotsk was recorded early Friday, the US Geological Survey said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police killed two suspected Islamic militants on Thursday after one of them threw a grenade at a group of officers and two others died in a separate shootout in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, Interfax reported. Both incidents took place in Dagestan province, which has become the epicentre of violence for militants seeking to establish an Islamic state in the North Caucasus, near where Russia plans to hold the 2014 Winter Olympics.
A US-based Sikh group today said that it will challenge an American district court's decision of dismissing human rights violations case against Parkash Singh Badal.
ADEN (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and a number of others wounded in a drone strike on a vehicle carrying suspected al Qaeda members in southern Yemen, a local official said on Saturday. The official said the strike took place at dawn on Saturday on a road to the north of Jaar in Abyan Governorate, near Aden.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, ArabtecARTC.DU, stayed away from work on Sunday to back wage demands, a rare labour protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned, staff said. Most blue collar workers in the Gulf Arab states are migrant labourers hired on a contract basis from South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, and strikes are uncommon.
The European Union wants to ban the refillable olive oil bottles that sit on so many restaurant tables across the continent.
The Dubai court of appeal upheld the six-month jail term for the Indian worker followed by deportation from the UAE.
China, the world's largest rice consumer, is expected to become the largest rice importer this year, according to a new report.
In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012.
An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers who risked their lives in battle.
The military official says the plane went down Monday in a southern district of Sanaa. There was no immediate word on casualties.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Southern California woman was fatally attacked by four pit bulls while jogging on Thursday and authorities were working to find the animals responsible for her death, Los Angeles County animal control officials said. The woman was attacked at about 9:30 a.m. in the community of Littlerock, about 65 miles east of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control spokeswoman Evelina Villa said.
REUTERS - An ammonia leak was detected Thursday in the cooling system outside of the International Space Station, but no crew members were in danger as a result, the U.S. space agency NASA said on its website
Kong Dongmei, the granddaughter of the founder of China and her husband Chen Dongsheng has combined wealth of five billion yuan ($82 million).
The Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia had started receiving applications for issuance of Emergency Certificates since last week of May.
The decision not to travel to Sri Lanka is not one which will have been taken lightly and it is likely to cause concern about the state of the Queen's health.
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, the US expects to have an automated system in place this month to close the student visa gap that allows many to enter the country even after they cease to be students.
The report, the first version of an annual Pentagon assessment required by law, said Pyongyang's Taepodong-2 missile, with continued development, might ultimately be able to reach parts of the United States.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Thursday released the photographs of three men it said were at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it was attacked last September