A human rights organisation has issued a sceptical warning over a North Korean defector's plea to return home.
Pakistan Prison Rules require that the condemned man mount the gallows; Abdul Basit cannot get out of his wheelchair.
Women across universities in Delhi have launched a movement to put an end to gender bias in college dorms.
Children in Yemen have paid a high price as Saudi-led air strikes batter Yemen.
The football star made an emotive speech at the United Nations in New York ahead of a UN summit.
Pop star fell victim to pranksters who impersonated the Russian president during a phone call earlier this month
IBTimes UK explains the history of militants in Niger Delta.
Zaha Hadid hangs up on Radio 4 after being questioned about reports of migrant deaths at Qatar World Cup stadium.
Shivy who has been forced to stay in India for the past 4 months, says he wants his travel documents and a safe passage to the US.
US documentary filmmaker claims to identify the man who made the bomb that brought down the aircraft
Four secularist bloggers have been murdered in Bangladesh in 2015 for expressing their views.
Some 1,036 newly recorded cases of FGM emerged during data collection from April 2015 until June 2015.
Crucifixion has traditionally been reserved for criminal gangs and bandits.
Nepal third country after South Africa and Ecuador to protect LGBT rights.
Syrian refugees say they are charged sky-high rents and discriminated against by Egyptians.
Women take to Twitter to share their abortion experiences.
Millions of displaced people have neither the means nor the money to become migrants.
Human rights groups claim that hanging wheelchair bound man would be 'cruel and degrading'.
Fake passports are being smuggled to non-Syrians who want to gain entry into EU states.
Egypt demolished and evicted of some 3,200 families in Isis counterinsurgency campaign.
Three quarters of students want universities take action against perpetrators of drunken sexual harassment.
Campaigners plead for mercy from King Salman to honour Eid and abort crucifixion of Saudi regime protester.
EXCLUSIVE: IBTimes UK speaks to Syrian and Iraqi refugees who don't dream of crossing into Europe.
The refugee quota has been bumped up to 85,000 for 2016, an increase of 15,000 from the current 70,000 cap.
EU laws mandate that migrants register as refugees in the first country they enter.
Apple joins Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and SAP to help refugees.
IBTimes UK speaks with anti-death penalty charity Reprieve on spike of executions in Iran.
Unicef reveals the children have been forced to flee their homes to escape the terror group.
Russia is not prepared for a bigger engagement in Syria.
Ali Mohammed al-Nimr will be beheaded and then his body strapped to a cross and left to rot.