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MUMBAI (Reuters) - A government-appointed auctioneer has sold off a Mumbai restaurant once owned by India's most wanted man, fugitive mafia boss Dawood Ibrahim, in a rare sale of seized property that attracted wary bidders and tight security on Wednesday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police launched an inquiry on Wednesday into criticism by the U.S. ambassador of a harsh royal insult law just a day after the junta rapped Britain's envoy for his remarks on the freedom of assembly.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Most police in England and Wales are not properly prepared to protect women from "honor" violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), the official body monitoring the police force said.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Cigar-chomping former Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey was named ambassador to the United States on Tuesday at a time of intense cooperation on issues from the fight against Islamic State militants to Chinese assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific region.<br...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A warehouse fire swept through a slum in India's financial capital of Mumbai on Monday, triggering a series of gas cylinder explosions, fire brigade and police officials said.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Last month, during an exercise to test India's readiness for a militant attack, teams of coast guards approached Mumbai and surrounding areas by sea, just as assailants did before deadly strikes in 2008. Several teams slipped through undetected.<br clear='all'/><img...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Xu Ming, a former business ally of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has died in prison of illness, local media reported on Sunday. He was 44.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654198/s/4c07dbd2/sc/11/mf.gif'...

BAGHDAD/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iraq's Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador on Saturday to demand that Turkey immediately withdraw hundreds of troops deployed in recent days to northern Iraq, near the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria said on Friday it had received information that groups "associated with terrorism" may be planning attacks against hotels in the country that are frequented by Westerners.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - On the first visit to Zimbabwe by a Chinese leader since 1996, President Xi Jinping on Tuesday witnessed the signing of 10 economic agreements, including on expanding the southern African nation's largest thermal power plant.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had authorized the voluntary departure from Mali of eligible family members and non-emergency personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, following an attack on a hotel in the capital last month.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's plans to allow children to work for family businesses and bar teenagers from employment in only a few hazardous industries are "regressive", Nobel Laureate and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi said on Tuesday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The head of one of Turkey's biggest retailers, once consigned by Tayyip Erdogan to the ranks of "riff-raff", might be forgiven for having sensed the hand of the president recently when Istanbul Stock exchange raised alarm with a terse warning to his company.<br...

HARARE (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, the first visit by a Chinese leader since 1996, amid expectations this would lead to the signing of infrastructure funding and investment agreements.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' embassy in Kabul on Monday warned of an imminent attack in the Afghan city, saying it had received credible reports of a threat within the next two days, but had no other details.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Police in China, where gun possession by ordinary people is illegal, have busted an online gun selling operation, seizing 1,180 guns and more than 6 million bullets, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - France and Russia will exchange intelligence on Islamic State and other rebel groups to improve the effectiveness of their aerial bombing campaigns in Syria, French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday after talks with Vladimir Putin.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world's worst recorded Ebola outbreak and militant violence in West Africa may have shut down schools across the region but governments should see conflict and crisis as an opportunity to reform and improve education, an expert said on Wednesday.<br...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States sanctioned a Syrian businessman on Wednesday who it said was a middleman for oil sales between Islamic State and the Syrian government, the latest salvo in an effort to cut off the flow of funds to the militant group.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

ATHENS (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the offices of a Greek business federation in central Athens early on Tuesday, police officials said, smashing windows but causing no injuries.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...