A devastating heat wave has killed more than 400 people in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi over the past three days, health officials said on Tuesday, as paramilitaries set up emergency medical camps in the streets.The heat wave, which coincides…
France has summoned the US envoy in Paris over claims that the US spied on President Francois Hollande and his two predecessors, officials say. Whistleblower website Wikileaks reports the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on Mr Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy…
The United States will pre-position tanks, artillery and other military equipment in eastern and central Europe, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday, moving to reassure NATO allies unnerved by Russian involvement in Ukraine.Carter, during a trip to Tallinn,…
The “creaking and outdated” justice system in England and Wales is failing society’s poorest, Michael Gove is to say in his first speech as justice secretary. He will say the best legal provision is the preserve of the wealthy, while…
Dylann Roof, the suspect in Wednesday’s church massacre in Charleston, appears to have written a racist manifesto, posing in photographs with a handgun and standing in front of a Confederate military museum and plantation slave houses.The photos and text surfaced…
As the young white man charged with murdering nine people inside an historic black church in South Carolina stood silently and expressionless at a court hearing on Friday, relatives of the slain worshippers faced him one by one, offering tearful…
By Aliya Iftikhar The United States has often touted the education sector as one of the major success stories of post-war rebuilding in Afghanistan, but it now appears that the numbers used to bolster that claim may have been inflated…
Dylann Roof, the suspected gunman in the South Carolina church shooting, had recently been given a weapon as a birthday present, according to a relative. The 21-year-old’s uncle told Reuters that Mr Roof’s father gave him a .45-calibre handgun. Carson…
The number of people displaced by war, conflict or persecution reached a record high of nearly 60 million around the world in 2014, a UN report says. The document by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says the number of people…
Myanmar’s government is using threats, harassment and imprisonment to intimidate the media ahead of national elections later this year, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The London-based human rights group said efforts to restrict freedom of expression have intensified over the past…
Property billionaire Donald Trump has announced he will run for the White House in the 2016 election. Mr Trump, a Republican, has never run for the party’s nomination before, but has often talked about it. “I am officially running for…
Hong Kong’s government is set to present a controversial political reform package ahead of a much-anticipated vote later this week. Protesters have gathered outside the city’s Legislative Council building. The package will for the first time give citizens the right…
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed president Mohamed Morsi to death on Tuesday on charges of killing, kidnapping and other offences during a 2011 mass jail break.The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and four other Brotherhood leaders were…
Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in “hostile countries” after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported.Security service MI6, which operates overseas…
A raging battle over President Barack Obama’s request for “fast-track” authority central to improving US ties with Asia resumes in the House of Representatives next week when lawmakers are expected to try to reverse Friday’s defeat of linchpin trade legislation.House…
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter met a top Chinese general on Thursday and repeated a US call for a halt to land reclamation in the South China Sea, while stressing that the Pentagon remained committed to expanding military contacts with…
Thousands of people fled from Syria into Turkey on Wednesday as moderate rebels and Kurdish forces fought Islamic State insurgents holding the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.
A Dallas-area policeman seen in a viral video tossing a bathing suit-clad teenage girl to the ground has resigned from the McKinney Police force, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday, calling the officer’s actions indefensible McKinney Police Corporal Eric…
By Colleen Curry Pope Francis will host Vladimir Putin this week at the Vatican, playing international diplomat at a time when the Russian president finds himself excluded from the G7 summit and blasted by President Barack Obama and others over…
Turkey faced the prospect of weeks of political turmoil after the ruling AK Party lost its parliamentary majority in weekend polls, dealing a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to acquire sweeping new powers.Instead of the two-thirds majority he had…
US President Barack Obama said Group of Seven (G7) leaders meeting in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday would discuss standing up to Russian aggression in Ukraine amid an upsurge in violence there that monitors have blamed on Moscow-backed separatists.
President Barack Obama has said G7 leaders will discuss “standing up to Russian aggression” in Ukraine, as he arrived at the summit in Germany. Trade, violent extremism and climate change would also feature, he said. The annual summit of leading…
The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze River jumped to 396 on Saturday, leaving fewer than 50 still missing, as the boat operator apologised and said it would cooperate with investigations.Only…
The death toll from the Chinese ferry disaster now stands at 396, the authorities say, as emergency workers search the vessel in the Yangtze River. The ship, the Eastern Star, capsized in a storm on Monday and was turned upright…
More than 130 climbers were stranded on one of Southeast Asia’s highest mountains on Friday after an earthquake rocked parts of the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island, a rescue official said.There had been some injuries and media reported…
China has pledged that there would be “no cover-up” of an investigation into the sinking of a cruise ship on the Yangtze River, which has left 75 people dead and over 370 missing, as angry families gathered near the rescue…
It was the moment the world thought would never come — Sepp Blatter has announced he is resigning as FIFA president. The most powerful man in soccer said on Tuesday afternoon he would step down from the post he has…
Five people are dead and hundreds are missing after a ship carrying more than 450 people capsized on the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei province. The ship is submerged upside down in a wide stretch of the river – state…
The legal authority for US spy agencies’ collection of Americans’ phone records and other data expired at midnight on Sunday after the US Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers.After debate pitting Americans’ distrust of intrusive government against fears…
US anti-terror provisions that allow security services to bulk collect phone data are set to expire after the Senate failed to reach a deal. Key provisions of the law, known as the Patriot Act, will expire at midnight local time…