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A hooded man claiming to be acting for Islamic State attacked a nursery school teacher with a knife-like weapon as he prepared for classes in a school north of Paris, French officials said on Monday.The male teacher was taken to…

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump had a new target on Sunday, calling fellow White House contender Ted Cruz “a little bit of a maniac” as the US senator passed him in an Iowa opinion poll.Cruz’s dogged pursuit of conservative Iowa…

An inferno in one of Manila’s huge shanty towns has killed nine people, authorities said Friday, the third blaze to have struck the city’s slums in as many weeks.Residents grabbed clothes, furniture and appliances as they fled the burning Damayang…

Argentina’s outgoing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has made an emotional farewell speech to supporters in Buenos Aires. She urged people to take to the streets if they feel betrayed by the new centre-right government.

Republican front runner Donald Trump called Monday for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States, unleashing some of the most provocative and divisive remarks of his controversial presidential campaign.The stunning statement followed last week’s mass shooting…

A man wielding a knife slashed a man in an east London metro station on Saturday, reportedly screaming “this is for Syria”, before police used a stun gun to detain him in what they described as a terrorist incident.A pool…

One of the first police officers to respond to deadly shootings at a social service centre in California has spoken of scenes of “unspeakable” carnage.Lt Mike Madden said he and officers who arrived later saw dead bodies and had to…

Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS).”If you allege something you should prove it,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.He was…

A former Malaysian diplomat pleaded guilty Monday to the indecent assault of a New Zealand woman, with a court hearing he burst into her bedroom naked from the waist down.Mohammed Rizalman bin Ismail was a military attache at Malaysia’s Wellington…

Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has pledged to bring to justice the killers of leading pro-Kurdish lawyer Tahir Elci.Mr Elci was shot dead in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir during a battle between police and unidentified gunmen. Two policemen also died.Mr…

A shooting at a family planning clinic in Colorado Springs has left two civilians and a police officer dead, with the suspected gunman under arrest.Nine other people were injured during the standoff at the Planned Parenthood clinic, which lasted five…

A Florida man who killed his wife and posted a photo of the body on Facebook has been found guilty of murder.Derek Medina admitted taking the picture on his phone and uploading it onto the social media site.He failed to…

Germany will do more in the fight against Islamic State militants, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.It was Germany’s “duty to reflect” and to “act quickly”, Mrs Merkel said in Paris, after being urged by President Hollande to commit more resources,…

A Russian marine has been killed on a helicopter mission to rescue the crew of a jet downed by Turkey near the Syrian border on Tuesday.He died when his helicopter came under fire from rebels in northern Syria, where the…

French police are examining what appears to be a suicide bomb belt dumped on a Paris street, 10 days after the attacks that killed 130 people.It is said to resemble belts used by the attackers and was found in a…

Belgian police have made 16 arrests in anti-terror raids but suspected Paris attacks gunman Salah Abdeslam remains at large, the authorities have said.A total of 22 raids were carried out on Sunday across Brussels and Charleroi, Belgian prosecutor Eric van…

Central Brussels was almost empty on Saturday night as a terror alert led restaurants and bars to shut early amid fears of a Paris-style attack.Soldiers patrolled the streets as a manhunt continued for the fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who was thought…

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said European countries must “wake up” to terror threats, following the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead.He spoke after it emerged that the suspected Belgian ringleader of the attacks had entered France…

French experts are working to establish whether the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid on a flat on Wednesday.Police said Abdelhamid Abaaoud was the target when officers stormed the flat in the…

US Secretary of State John Kerry has described Islamic State (IS) militants as “psychopathic monsters” following Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris.Mr Kerry, in Paris for talks with President Hollande, said the US stood “shoulder to shoulder” with France.Mr Hollande says…

French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people.Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Friday’s suicide bombings and shootings, which have…

An angry President Francois Hollande on Saturday promised a “merciless” response to a wave of attacks by gunmen and bombers that killed more than 150 people across Paris, describing the assault claimed by Islamic State as an act of war…

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after at least 120 people were killed in gun and bomb attacks in Paris.Some 80 people are reported to have died at the Bataclan concert hall in…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an investigation into claims the country’s athletes have been part of a systematic doping programme.Putin was speaking for the first time since a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) independent commission revealed its damning findings on…

Republican Donald Trump’s plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants from the US has been savaged by his party rivals in a TV debate.Two others also running for the Republican presidential nomination, John Kasich and Jeb Bush, said the plan…

In her first interview since historic elections, Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC her party has won a parliamentary majority.Early results point to a sweeping victory for her National League for Democracy (NLD), but final…

Supporters of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi burst into boisterous celebration on Sunday after the country held its first free nationwide election in 25 years, the biggest step yet in a journey to democracy from dictatorship.Although the outcome of the…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou are set to hold historic talks in Singapore.It is the first time since the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 that the leaders from both sides have met.China views Taiwan as…

A cargo plane has crashed on take-off near the international airport in South Sudan’s capital Juba, killing at least 36 people.South Sudan’s transport minister says two people were found alive, but one of them later died. Earlier an official had…