The UN began evacuating hundreds of people from besieged Syrian towns in a rare sign of humanitarian progress, as the US Air Force for the first time deployed a B-52 bomber against the Islamic State group.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador on Wednesday, sowing new panic four days after a powerful quake killed more than 500 people and injured over 5,000.

New York was to go to the polls on April 19 in a pivotal presidential primary tipped to hand Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump victories in the race to clinch the Democratic and Republican tickets to the White House.

Rescuers and desperate families clawed through the rubble Monday to pull out survivors of an earthquake that killed 350 people and destroyed towns in a tourist area of Ecuador.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was on Monday to announce plans to make companies liable for staff facilitating tax evasion, in his first parliamentary appearance since the Panama Papers triggered a row over his own tax affairs.

Hundreds of emergency workers in India battled yesterday night to rescue dozens of people still trapped after a flyover collapsed onto a busy street, killing at least 22 people and injuring nearly 100

Over one in eight adults are now obese -- a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported today

EU member states agreed yesterday to impose sanctions on three Libyan figures for obstructing the peace process and the formation of a government of national unity in the war-torn country

 New "extremely troubling" allegations have emerged of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers and French troops in the Central African Republic, the United Nations said yesterday.