Pakistan is drawing up plans to tax Nato for using its territory to supply troops in Afghanistan, in retaliation for the recent death of its soldiers in a “friendly fire”.

The UN climate chief has voiced regret over Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol and says the country still has legal obligations to work against global warming.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have announced they’re building a giant plane and spaceship to zip people and cargo into orbit.

Turkey has frozen financial assets and cut strategic links with Damascus, ratcheting up pressure on the regime of Bashar al-Assad to end its violence against protesters.

The foreign secretary of the UK, William Hague, has ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from the UK and announced that the UK is closing its embassy in Tehran.

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Bahraini security forces used “excessive force” and tortured detainees in a March crackdown on Shiite-led protests demanding democratic change, the head of an Independent Commissio

A North Korean prison camp survivor has given a rare testimony exposing public executions and starvation at the detention centre where she was held for 28 years.

A handwritten letter from Paul McCartney offering a Beatles audition to a mystery drummer has sold for almost GBP35,000 ($55,174), Christie’s auction house has said.

The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Europe department has resigned a year after taking on the role.