A recent agreement between Russia and China to switch to domestic currencies in bilateral trading will pave the way for the “de-dollarization” of the global economy, a Finnish political economist says.

The British police have received more than 1,600 reports of sexual attacks in hospitals in the last three years, with the record revealing a hidden surge in sexual abuse in health centers.

A British-led group of scientists plans to grow lettuce on Mars to help astronauts grow their own food in space.

Fresh nighttime clashes have broken out between Bahraini security forces and anti-regime demonstrators protesting the arrest of prominent opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.

The ISIL Takfiri group has published a guidebook instructing mothers how to raise “jihadi babies.”

Kurdish fighters have gained control over about 70 percent of Syria’s strategic town of Kobani across from the Turkish border, a Britain-based monitoring group says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Crimea’s integration with Russia was the most important milestone in the country’s history.