The fund’s board agreed on Thursday, at its first extraordinary meeting, to set the money aside, the first time the fund has responded to a disaster, after Nepal became the first country to invoke its...

The announcement was made as his surgeon and doctor issued an update on his recovery...

"Iris," a monumental painting by Impressionist Claude Monet, sold for 50 million euros ($56 million) including buyer fees in Paris on Thursday, has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at aucti...

Legendary cueist Pankaj Adavani proved that he remains a formidable force on the circuit as he pocketed a staggering 29th career world title by winning the WBL World Billiards Championship in Birmingh...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Ryu Murakami, a Japanese author known for his Akutagawa Prize winning debut novel "Almost Transparent Blue," has died, a publishing i...

WASHINGTON — A polling firm whose data was tracked by political campaigns and mainstream media has admitted that its polls were fabricated, in the second such scandal to stir controversy ahead of the ...

KUALA LUMPUR - The navigation app Waze has rejected Malaysia’s allegations that it could exploit users’ personal data, after the country banned civil servants from using the app over its Israeli links...