The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics.

The UK's high commissioner in India is to meet a controversial politician accused of encouraging anti-Muslim riots, with a view to ending a 10-year boycott.

The US says it will help with the investigation into a bombing that killed a senior Lebanese intelligence official, as clashes continue in Beirut.

It has been missing for 80 years but Sillem’s Mountain Finch Leucosticte sillemi has now been rediscovered on the Tibetan plateau by a trekker who was too ill to leave camp.

South Korean police block activists from sending propaganda leaflets across the border after threats of military action from Pyongyang.

Six authors from the past century are shortlisted for the best ever winner of Britain's oldest book award.

Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew says Fabricio Coloccini's performance in the draw at Sunderland was "like watching Bobby Moore".

Cycling's world governing body will announce its response to Usada's report into Lance Armstrong's doping on Monday.