It is accused of being a city built on scams, home to a lucrative yet deadly nexus of fraud, money-laundering and human ...

A kitten was rescued from a shaft and nursed back to health by its saviour. The stray feline wandered into a shop and tried to escape through the electrical cavity at the back of the property in ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was unsuccessful Wednesday as the prospect of paying tens of millions of ...

Myanmar’s embattled junta has banned anyone eligible for military conscription from leaving the country without permission, ...

Le Monde managed to visit Myanmar's largest city despite the war. The city has lost none of its buzz, our journalist reports.

Case alleges that UC schools show preference to Hispanic and Black applicants, and seeks to stop the schools from asking ...

Britain’s first black woman bishop tells her story for the first time in a new memoir.

From mythical guardians to symbols of transformation and terror, the snake has slithered its way into the annals of art ...

Myanmar's military deposed the elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. She remains in jail and the country is mired in a brutal civil war.

Although many might regard it as an irrelevant backwater, it’s an emergency that should command the world’s attention ...