Tag: World news

The bodies of all 18 people on board a small plane that crashed on a hill in western Nepal have been recovered, officials say.

A year-long UN inquiry into rights abuses in North Korea is expected to urge punishment for systematic violations by the state. In a report due to be published, a panel of experts mandated by the UN’s Human Rights Council said…

Lawyers for deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have walked out of his trial on charges of espionage and conspiring to commit acts of terror.

A plane with 18 people on board has gone missing in western Nepal.

The UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has apologised to the Syrian people after peace talks in Geneva ended without making progress.

Turkish MPs have approved controversial plans to reform the country’s top judicial body, amid a brawl which left one opposition MP with a broken nose.

Tens of thousands of Indonesians have fled their homes after a volcano erupted in east Java.

Penguin India has defended its decision to recall and destroy copies of a book on Hinduism by a prominent US scholar.

A huge winter storm is affecting the densely populated US north-east, after wreaking havoc in the South.

There has been chaos in the lower house of India’s parliament after an MP used pepper spray to disrupt proceedings.

North and South Korea have held their highest level talks in years, exploring ways to improve their tense relations.

International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic, a human rights group says.

China and Taiwan have held their first high-level talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.

An Algerian military transport plane has crashed in the north-east of the country, killing more than 100 people, Algerian media say.

Gunmen on motorbikes have shot dead eight people, including an eight-year-old girl and her father, at a faith healer’s house in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.

Italy has reacted angrily to an Indian decision to try two Italian marines, accused of killing two fishermen, under an anti-piracy law.

“I came to tell the world I’m an openly gay man,” the defensive lineman told ESPN. “If I work hard, if I make plays – that’s all that should matter.”

Dubai – An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach U.S. maritime borders as a response to the stationing of U.S. vessels in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday.

The US is to make changes to the justice system to give greater legal recognition to same-sex marriages.

High-dose vitamin C can boost the cancer-killing effect of chemotherapy in the lab and mice, research suggests.

Spain’s Princess Cristina is being questioned in court in connection with a corruption scandal involving her husband’s business dealings.

Two people were killed when a falling boulder derailed a tourist train in the southern French Alps, local officials and firefighters say. 

Germany’s Angela Merkel has said a US official’s apparent insult of the EU’s efforts to mediate in the Ukraine crisis is “totally unacceptable”.

Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings as violent protests continue across the country for a third day.

Italy’s navy has rescued 1,123 people from inflatable boats in the space of 24 hours, as clandestine migration from North Africa reaches record levels.

The first formal meeting between the Pakistan government and a Taliban-nominated team has begun in an undisclosed location, local media say.

Kathmandu – At least 14 people were killed and seven others injured on Thursday when a passenger bus veered off a mountain highway and fell some 500 metres into a river. The bus, carrying 21 people, was en route to…

The UN has demanded that the Vatican “immediately remove” all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers, in a report released on Wednesday.

North and South Korea have agreed to hold reunions for families separated after the Korean War, following calls from Pyongyang to improve ties.

Pakistani politician Imran Khan will not be part of a team representing the Taliban in peace talks with the government, his party has made clear.