Top-seeded Andy Murray said Sunday he is back to his best ahead of the Dubai Tennis Championships after recounting his struggles with shingles following his early exit from the Australian Open last month

A new psychological trauma institute is being established at the university of Dohuk in Iraq, the first in the entire region

The head of the Egyptian national airlines, EgyptAir, says the company has transported a 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) woman in a cargo plane to India for a series of surgeries

The greater adjutant stork used to be an object of revulsion in northeast India; its fortunes may turn on local pride

The Yemeni journalists' union, rights groups, and family members are demanding an inquiry into the mysterious death of a top investigative journalist after an autopsy showed that he was poisoned

Iran's semi-official ILNA news agency is reporting that the country has called "inhumane" a decision by the Trump administration to expand a list of medical equipment requiring federal authorization for sale to Iran

India's Jet Airways says 12 passengers were injured during an emergency evacuation after one of its planes veered off the runway before taking off on a domestic flight in western India

An international rights group says Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty against a mentally ill man convicted of murder, overturning a previous appeal and a court decision staying his execution

A leading international rights group has called on Egypt to enact new and harsher legal penalties for the widespread practice of female genital mutilation

The World Health Organization has certified Sri Lanka as a malaria-free nation, in what it called a "truly remarkable" achievement