A Frenchman who lost his limbs braved currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

Syrian forces were accused of executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy.

France's new government, gets down to work Thursday with the first order of business on their agenda being a pay cut for themselves.

Nearly half of transgender people in the Asia-Pacific region could have HIV, a UN report said Thursday.

The trial of wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic opened before a UN court, where he faces charges for some of the worst atrocities committed in Europe since World War II.

One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key cause of strokes and heart disease, according to World Health Organisation figures released.