12:45 17/5/2015 |
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Egyptian authorities have hanged six persons convicted of carrying out attacks in the name of a group that pledged loyalty to the ISIS gang group.
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08:22 17/5/2015 |
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An Egypt court sentences former President Mohamed Morsi to death for a prison break in 2011.
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14:58 15/5/2015 |
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More than 700 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar have been rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia's coast.
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11:00 15/5/2015 |
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South Africa's notorious Robben Island prison, where the late president Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and which is now a popular tourist destination, will soon run solely on solar power, the government said.
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12:44 14/5/2015 |
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The death toll in a fire that destroyed a shoe factory in the Philippine capital has risen to 72, officials say.
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12:44 14/5/2015 |
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The death toll in Nepal from this week's magnitude 7.3 earthquake has risen to 110, authorities said Thursday, taking the total number of people killed across the region over 125.
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09:58 14/5/2015 |
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The FARC guerrilla movement in Colombia has urged the government to include a smaller guerrilla group, the ELN, in peace talks aimed at ending more than half a century of conflict.
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13:48 13/5/2015 |
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Rescuers have continued efforts to reach survivors of a deadly new earthquake in Nepal that triggered landslides and brought down buildings, as the search resumed for a US military helicopter that went missing while delivering aid.
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10:02 13/5/2015 |
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North Korea's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol has been executed for showing disloyalty to Kim Jong-il, South Korea's spy agency has told parliament.
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10:01 13/5/2015 |
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Gunmen have killed at least 40 in Karachi attack.
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11:43 12/5/2015 |
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A strong earthquake shook Nepal on May 12, sending people in the capital Kathmandu rushing out on to the streets weeks after a devastating quake killed more than 8,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes, eyewitnesses said.
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10:04 12/5/2015 |
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Praising "strong and free" country, Hollande makes no mention of rights issues that led to freeze in EU ties with Cuba.
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08:52 11/5/2015 |
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Two days of mourning declared after clashes between police and attackers in northern town of Kumanovo kill at least 22.
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17:32 09/5/2015 |
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Thousands of Russian troops marched across Red Square, tanks rumbled through the streets and jets screamed overhead on May 9 in a huge military parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.
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11:11 09/5/2015 |
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A Norwegian court has handed prison terms to two men convicted of joining ISIS gang militants in Syria and third man found guilty of providing logistical support.
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15:26 08/5/2015 |
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An army helicopter has crashed in a mountainous part of northern Pakistan killing six people including the Philippine and Norwegian ambassadors.
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11:36 08/5/2015 |
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The US Justice Department is preparing to announce a civil rights investigation into the Baltimore police department as early as Friday following unrest over the death in custody of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, a person familiar with the matter has said.
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15:24 07/5/2015 |
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Across the United Kingdom, millions of voters are casting their ballots Thursday in a general election that will decide the next government.
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08:34 07/5/2015 |
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British police say they have arrested seven men as part of an investigation into an alleged fraud linked to extremists in Syria.
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10:13 05/5/2015 |
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Saudi Arabia is considering temporary halts in coalition air strikes against Houthi fighters in Yemen to allow for aid deliveries, the kingdom's foreign minister has said.
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