-- 2018-08-03 17:06:32
A woman who attacked two people with an axe in an Australian convenience store has been convicted of attempted murder. Evie Amati, 26, carried out the unprovoked attack in Sydney last year. After en...
-- 2018-08-03 14:32:02
Assailants in apparently coordinated attacks burnt down 11 schools for boys and girls in Pakistan's north before fleeing, a local police officer and residents say. Police officer Mohammad Bashir says...
-- 2018-08-03 13:27:06
As Europe bakes in another heatwave, forecasters say the all-time temperature record could be broken in the coming days. The current European record is 48°C (118.4°F) set in Athens in July 19...
-- 2018-08-03 13:22:51
Republican and Democratic US senators introduced legislation on Thursday to impose stiff new sanctions on Russia and combat cyber crime, the latest effort by lawmakers to punish Moscow over interferen...
-- 2018-08-03 13:15:21
Law enforcers in Costa Rica recovered two tons of cocaine from a low-profile boat, a kind of boat frequently used by drug traffickers because they are difficult to detect by radar, in the Pacific Oc...
-- 2018-08-03 13:12:43
India has asked Britain to extradite billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, one of the main accused in the $2 billion loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB). Modi’s whereabouts have been u...
-- 2018-08-03 11:53:05
Parts of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, ground to a halt on Friday after a substation fault cut off power to the nation’s parliament, shut down traffic signals and plunged busines...
-- 2018-08-03 11:36:36
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday won a election as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. The former s...
-- 2018-08-02 21:44:16
Imran Khan, Pakistan's prime minister-to-be, has invited former Indian cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor Aamir Khan to his oath-taking ceremony on August 11, report...
-- 2018-08-02 19:23:16
Businesses have shut in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as the nation awaits the release of heavily disputed presidential election results. Armed soldiers and police are on patrol, ordering people to "be...
-- 2018-08-02 19:22:10
The exiled patriarch of Ethiopia's powerful Orthodox Church, Bishop Merkorios, has returned home to the capital, Addis Ababa, after 27 years. Ethiopia's reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, met him...
-- 2018-08-02 19:15:35
An international delegation has arrived in the town of Beni in Democratic Republic of Congo, 30 km (18 miles) from where an Ebola outbreak was declared, said the World Health Organization on Thursday....
-- 2018-08-02 17:23:10
Imran Khan, Pakistan's prime minister-to-be, has invited former cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor Aamir Khan to his oath-taking ceremony on August 11. Pakistan Teh...
-- 2018-08-02 15:28:19
A Turkish minister has defiantly mocked US sanctions against him, saying his only asset in the United States is a US-based Muslim cleric whom Turkey blames for a failed coup and wants extradited. The...
-- 2018-08-02 14:34:55
Militants killed three foreign nationals working for an international company in the Afghan capital, Kabul, two security officials said on Thursday. “An Indian, a Malaysian and a Macedonian cit...
-- 2018-08-02 13:54:17
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he looked forward to meeting Kim Jong Un soon and thanked the North Korean leader for sending the suspected remains of US soldiers killed in the 1950-1953 Ko...
-- 2018-08-02 11:00:11
Zimbabwe police said three people were killed in Harare on Wednesday as soldiers dispersed stone-throwing opposition supporters who accused the ruling party of trying to rig Monday’s presidentia...
-- 2018-08-01 14:28:24
Bangladeshi and other illegal Rohingyas settlers should be shot if they did not return to their countries, an Indian political party leader has said. Telangana Legislative Assembly representing the G...
-- 2018-08-01 13:12:53
Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party won the majority of seats in parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by huge margins, official results showed on Wednesday, setting the stage for President...
-- 2018-08-01 10:50:29
A plane has crashed in the capital of Mexico's Durango state, television images show, with the state governor confirming nobody was killed. Governor José Aispuro tweeted that there were no dea...
-- 2018-07-31 19:05:11
North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration and pledges to denuclearise, BBC says citing reports. Unnamed US officials on Tuesd...
-- 2018-07-31 18:15:07
Fire fighters are making progress in battling a deadly wildfire in Northern California but the fire that's levelled hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee the area has now crossed...
-- 2018-07-31 16:03:08
Three people were kelled in a small plane crash in rural Maine , the northeasternmost US state, after the aircraft departed for Prince Edward Island in Canada, polce said. The twin-engine plane crash...
-- 2018-07-31 16:01:55
A six-year-old girl who was hit and killed by car had been heading for prayers at a mosque with her father, police have said. The girl, Jannatul Bakya, was hit while crossing Oldbury Road in Smethwic...
-- 2018-07-31 14:28:39
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent, Nelson Chamisa, both said on Tuesday they were confident of victory in an election the previous day which observers deemed too earl...
-- 2018-07-31 12:15:12
North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration, media reports say. Unnamed US officials told the Washington Post that spy satellit...
-- 2018-07-31 12:06:43
An explosion inside a van killed at least 10 people at a military checkpoint in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, in what officials said may have been a bombing by militants with ties to th...
-- 2018-07-31 11:41:40
Indonesia has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Jakarta in August following a similar invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, offic...
-- 2018-07-30 21:09:12
Massive crowds have gathered outside a hospital in southern India's Tamil Nadu state where a politician who has served as chief minister (CM) five times was admitted on Saturday, reports Reuters. M...
-- 2018-07-30 20:54:09
Islamic State (IS) militants are holding more than 30 women and children hostage in south-western Syria, a monitor and local media said. They are believed to have been seized in last week's IS attack...
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