Two female suicide bombers have killed at least 22 worshippers in an attack on a mosque in north-eastern Nigeria, rescue officials have said. Abdul Mohammed, of the State Emergency Management Agency, said 17 other people were injured in the explosions...
Another group of Russian warplanes have left their air base in Syria to return home, Russia's defence ministry has said. The announcement comes two days after President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to withdraw most of its fighting forces...
A bomb blast has ripped through a bus carrying government employees in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing 15. Police official Abbas Majeed Marwat said the bombing happened in an army area of the city. He said nearly 40 other people were wounded by...
A piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane, Australian officials say. The piece was discovered earlier this...
Donald Trump has scored victories in three states, including the big prize of Florida, but lost Ohio to state governor John Kasich, as the billionaire's rivals desperately tried to stop his march to the Republican presidential nomination. Marco Rubio,...
U.N. special envoy Angelina Jolie urged world powers today to do more to help the millions who have fled the conflict from Syria's 5-year-long civil war, as she visited refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The war has killed 250,000 people, displaced...
Belgian police have launched a manhunt in a Brussels neighbourhood after at least one gunman opened fire on officers during an anti-terror raid linked to last year's Paris attacks, officials said. Three police officers were slightly injured during the...
Mother Teresa will be made a saint on September 4. Pope Francis set the canonisation date, paving the way for the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor to become the centre-piece of his year-long focus on the Catholic Church's merciful side. The...
An explosion that destroyed a car and killed the driver in central Berlin during rush hour traffic was probably caused by a bomb, police said, but investigators are working on the assumption it was not a terror-related attack. The explosion occurred at...
Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in 2011, has arrived in court for his human rights case against the Norwegian government. As soon as prison guards removed his handcuffs, the 37-year-old...
At least 45 Kurdish rebels have been killed in air strikes on northern Iraq following the suicide car bombing in Ankara, Turkey's military has said. Turkish F-16 and F4 jets raided Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, positions across the border in Iraq on...
Htin Kyaw, a long-time confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi, has won a majority of votes in Burma's presidential election. The 70-year-old will become the country's first democratically elected leader after more than half a century of military rule, in a...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will soon conduct a nuclear warhead explosion test and launch rockets capable of carrying atomic warheads. His warning is an escalation of the North's threats as it furiously reacts to annual military...
Updated Tuesday 7am - The Russian military has started a pull-out from Syria after President Vladimir Putin's surprise announcement yesterday that they would start to leave and that he instructed his diplomats to step up the push for peace at...
Italian father and son have been shot dead by a ranger in a wildlife park in Zimbabwe, the parks and wildlife agency said, saying the pair had been mistaken for elephant poachers. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZPWMA) said...
An American fighting for Islamic State has been taken into custody in northern Iraq after emerging from territory controlled by the militant group in Syria. CBS News, citing two sources with the Kurdish peshmerga military force, said the American...
Spanish police arrested 30 people accused of robbing, kidnapping and torturing drug traffickers, the Interior Ministry said. Police detained 21 Moroccans, eight Spaniards and one person from Senegal and are investigating another five people, it...
Serbian authorities found two U.S.-made guided missiles that arrived on a civil flight from Lebanon and were bound for the United States, a source at the prosecutor's office said. The Lebanese army said the Hellfire missiles were training models,...
Two plane pieces found in Mozambique will be sent to Australia to verify if they belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Malaysia's transport minister said. Liow Tiong Lai said a part found recently by an American in Mozambique is now in Malaysia for...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is to hold an emergency cabinet meeting following an attack by al Qaida extremists on a popular beach resort which killed 16 people. Sunday's attack on Grand-Bassam was the first of its kind in Ivory Coast.
Turkey's military has carried out air strikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq hours after a deadly bombing in Ankara, the state-run news agency said. The Anadolu Agency said nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the...
Thailand's Siam Commercial Bank says a chemical accident at its Bangkok headquarters has killed eight people. Natasha Howitt reports.
Huge demonstrations across Brazil have heaped even more pressure on embattled president Dilma Rousseff as she heads into a fight against impeachment proceedings. According to police estimates, three million people took to the streets in 200 cities,...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to bring terrorism "to its knees" following the suicide car bomb attack in the capital that killed at least 34 people and injured 125 others. Mr Erdogan also said Turkey would use its right to...
The president of Ivory Coast has said 14 civilians and six armed men were killed after attackers targeted beach-goers and three hotels in the historic resort town of Grand-Bassam. Alassane Ouattara is visiting the town's hotels to express condolences...
At least 27 people have been killed after an explosion in the Turkish capital Ankara, officials said. The governor's office said at least 75 others were wounded in the blast that occurred near the city's main square. The explosion is believed to have...
Serbia's authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for the US containing two missiles with explosive warheads was found on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia. N1 television said the package with two guided armour-piercing...
Pope Francis marked his third anniversary as pope by reinforcing his message of mercy and giving away 40,000 copies of the Gospel of St Luke. Nuns who work in the Vatican's free paediatric clinic and Rome grandparents handed out the booklets to...
Donald Trump says he has "instructed my people" to explore the possibility of helping pay the legal bills for a 78-year-old man charged with assault at a Trump rally. John Franklin McGraw Authorities have said John Franklin McGraw of Linden, North...
A doctor referred Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to a psychiatric clinic two weeks before he crashed a plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people, French air accident investigators have revealed. The BEA investigation agency, releasing a...
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