A new study has traced the origins of HIV back to the early 20th century in the western region of Congo. From there, scientists say that the deadly virus spread throughout Africa over the next several decades, and eventually turned into a worldwide epidemic, infecting 75 million people.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made a rare public appearance at a mosque inDamascus at the start of a Muslim holiday, a photo posted on the presidency's official Twitter feed on Saturday showed.
More than a thousand rival protesters, some wearing helmets, faced off in a densely populated, gritty district of Hong Kong on Saturday, fuelling concerns that the Chinese-controlled city's worst unrest in decades could take a more violent turn.
Iran is not ready to replace Russia as a key gas supplier if sanctions against Tehranare removed, Itar-Tass news agency quoted Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as telling Russian TV channel Rossiya 1.
A leading member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian sister party criticised European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on Saturday, saying he was turning the institute into a "junk bank" with his plans to buy debt rated as junk.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will attend a summit of European and Asian leaders on a trip starting next week that will also include a visit to Germany and the signing of energy and high-speed rail deals with Russia, the government said.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a leading British Roman Catholic Bishop who acknowledged that he had broken his vows and who was believed to have had an affair with a married woman, the Vatican said on Saturday.
Muslim groups across Britain united on Saturday to join Prime Minister David Cameronin condemning the beheading of aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State insurgents, with one leading cleric calling it a "despicable and offensive act".
According to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the effect the Ebola outbreak has had in poor West African countries is a reflection of the dangers of global inequality.
Red Cross worker killed in rebel-held Ukraine town from shells A Red Cross worker in Ukraine was killed Thursday after mortar shells hit near the office in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, the Associated Press reported.
Officials announce they are sending fighter jets to help the fight Australia said Friday it will soon launch six fighter jets that will conduct airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, joining the U.
Storm is expected to turn back toward Baja California Tropical Storm Simon is deceiving on the radar and the storm currently looks set to head out to sea in the Pacific Ocean.
Recent recall is the 71st this year for embattled American automaker General Motors Co. said Friday that it is recalling 524,384 vehicles around the world because of issues with latches and loose parts, another of many recalls by the company this year.
Two of the men held by Thai police confessed to murdering the British tourists and raping Hannah Witheridge. DNA samples from the men were found on Witheridge's body.
Officials in Saudi Arabia have quelled fears of the spread of deadly diseases like Ebola and MERS as 2 million Muslims made their way to Mecca for the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Thursday.
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday, contradicting Nigerian military reports that he had been killed.
Bank of Japan policymakers meeting next week will start debating how to justify maintaining their rosy inflation forecasts even as a slew of weak data will likely force them to cut their economic growth projections later this month.
Human rights groups condemned on Friday a Myanmar government plan that could force thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims into detention camps indefinitely if they do not qualify for citizenship.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday that the yen's weakening is broadly positive for the Japanese economy as long as it reflected the underlying fundamentals.
