US president Donald Trump urged Americans to move beyond the angry partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans in his first State of the Union address to Congress
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been arrested in Moscow as protest demonstrations called by him took place across the country
An ambulance packed with explosives blew up in a crowded area of Kabul on Saturday, killing 95 people and wounding 158 others, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban
Millions of tonnes of ash and rocks from an erupting volcano in Philippines could bury nearby communities due to heavy rain
A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital on Friday killing at least 37 people, the government said, in the country's worst blaze for a decade
A massive volcano erupted in the Philippines on Tuesday, sending fire and ash into the sky. Lava flowed more than one mile from Mount Mayon, sending thousands of villagers scrambling
Torrential rains in France caused flooding in the eastern and northern parts of the country, with the Seine River rising in Paris and bursting its banks on Tuesday
US vice-president Mike Pence visited Jerusalem's Western Wall on Tuesday while Palestinians held a general strike after denouncing his fervently pro-Israel speech the previous day as "messianic"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Davos on Monday, becaming the first Indian head of government to attend the World Economic Forum in 20 years.
The annual World Economic Forum began in Switzerland's resort town of Davos on Monday.
A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand’s southern Yala province on Monday, killing three people and wounding 22.
Hundreds of Tokyo residents scrambled for cover on Monday in the Japanese capital's first evacuation drill for a military attack since World War II
Gunmen killed at least five people and wounded eight others in an attack on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel
Activists blocked roads and clashed with police in Honduras as part of nationwide protes against re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez
Pope Francis issued a ringing defense of people and the environment of the Amazon on Friday, saying big business and “consumerist greed” could not be allowed to destroy a natural habitat vital for the entire planet
Thousands of Orthodox Christians in parts of the world thronged rivers and ponds to take dip in the water to mark Epiphany, cleansing themselves with water deemed holy for the day
Several dozen Haitians protested outside the US embassy in Port-au-Prince, recalling their country's heritage after Donald Trump reportedly called Haiti a "shithole".
Pope Francis arrived in Peru on the final leg of his South American trip, where he will meet indigenous people.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Honduras' second-largest city on Friday to protest the re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez
Pakistan continues to reel from riots over the alleged rape and murder of eight-year-old Zainab Ansari in country's Punjab province
Pakistan on Friday reacted sharply to the US' decision to suspend over $1 billion security aid to it for failing to rein in terror groups, saying "arbitrary deadlines and unilateral pronouncements" are "counterproductive" in addressing common threats
An intense 'bomb cyclone' battered the US East Coast on Thursday with high winds and heavy snowfalls, leaving thousands of flights cancelled, numerous schools and offices closed and millions of Americans bracing for potential power shortages
Over 50 people have been killed in Peru on Tuesday after the bus they were riding collided with a truck along a precarious stretch known as the 'Devil's Curve' and was thrown off a seaside cliff
At least 16 people were hurt on Tuesday as a fire tore through an apartment building in the Bronx, just days after another blaze in the New York City borough killed 12 people
Iran has seen its largest anti-government protests since the disputed presidential election in 2009, with thousands taking to the streets in several cities.
At least two persons, including the shooter, have died in a workplace shooting in Long Beach city in the US state of California
A fire tore through Bronx apartment building on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, including a toddler, and leaving four others fighting for their lives
At least 13 people were injured Wednesday by an explosion at a supermarket in Saint Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city and the site of a deadly subway bombing this year
Around 40 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite cultural centre in Kabul on Thursday
Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets on Monday to protest the pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori, with many calling it part of a backroom deal struck to protect the current president from impeachment on corruption charges