They were among more than 400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, killed when Israel launched a surprise bombardment.

Many ethnic Rohingya - who are mostly Muslim, originally from Myanmar and constitute the world's largest stateless population - escape squalid camps and persecution in Myanmar and neighbouring ...

President of Radio Free Europe, Stephen Capus, speaks to ABC News’ Linsey Davis about his now-freed colleague political prisoner, Andrei Kuznechyk. A top jailed Belarus opposition leader, Maria ...

Edinburgh’s South Bridge is a monumental, albeit fundamentally flawed, feat of 18th century engineering and design. The city itself straddles seven major hills. Only two of these high points are ...

Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.

NOBODY in modern Britain should be living in those circumstances' – this was the observation of a coroner concluding that the death of a woman living in 'squalid conditions' in Haltwhistle was ...

It was one of the most shocking investigations into paedophilia that detectives had ever come across. The sickening and depraved crimes of Matthew Falder, a university lecturer, fully came to ...

A woman who kept seven dogs in filthy training cages and with untreated eye and ear infections has been banned from keeping animals for four years. The dogs, which included English bull terriers ...

ROSEVILLE, Minn. — A popular Twin Cities animal attraction shut its doors for good. The SeaQuest location in the Rosedale Center mall in Roseville has closed after nearly six years in business ...

Mysuru: Even before the rainy season begins, sewage water continues to flow through the Raja Kaluve (stormwater drain) in Jayanagar, presenting a dismal and unhygienic sight. Herds of pigs are often ...

Cameron Cole, 48, and Phyllis Arthur, 36, are said to have compelled the children to live in "squalid" conditions at a house where there was alleged to have been a dead pet stored in the freezer.