JERUSALEM — Israel reckoned with rising homegrown extremism Sunday as it arrested six Jewish suspects who are believed to have burned to death an Arab teenager in revenge for the killing of three Israeli teens. Read full article >>
Selling alcoholic beverages has been forbidden in sport stadiums in Brazil since 2003. On May 9, a day after the Brazilian government met with FIFA authorities and a few days before the World Cup began, the Congress of Brazil approved a ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A 12-year-old girl has been killed and eight other civilians wounded in an Iraqi airstrike on a Kurdish-held town in Iraq's northern province of Salahuddin, a Kurdish security forces official said.
Rolling coverage of the final stages of evidence in the trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, after footage emerges of the athlete re-enacting the fatal shooting Continue reading...
Former Soviet minister and Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, who is credited with helping end the Cold War, died Monday after a long illness, his spokeswoman tells the media.
Presenter Vanessa Feltz says there has been an outpouring of "misogyny and hatred" to her claim Rolf Harris assaulted her during a live television interview.
KABUL (Reuters) - Rival Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani on Monday held last-minute talks to try to resolve a standoff over the outcome of a troubled election, as officials once again delayed the announce...
A public interest lawyer, Chang Boyang, has been charged with “suspicion of illegal commercial activities” after attempting to defend several attendees at a meeting discussing the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement, lawyers said.
The groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia died after a long illness. Steve Inskeep talks to Pavel Palazhchenko, an interpreter for Shevardnadze.
Paramedics in Gaza treat those wounded by Israeli air strikes on Monday. The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas says seven of its fighters died in a single strike near Rafah in southern Gaza. The Israeli military said the...
A Eurotunnel train stops in the Channel Tunnel because of a power fault, leaving hundreds of passengers needing to be evacuated from the train and causing lengthy delays.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The front-runner in Wednesday's Indonesian presidential election has flown to Mecca on a whirlwind pilgrimage in a last-ditch bid to win voters among the world's largest Muslim population and put to rest damaging sugg...
The procession through Oppido Mamertina, Calabria - a stronghold of the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate - detoured to pass the home of an 82-year-old convicted murderer.
The 21 photographs which show the destruction in Mosul and the town of Tal Afar were posted on a website that frequently carries official statements from the Islamic State extremist group.
Overweight India Buchan, of Uckfield, East Sussex, was so fed up of looking at herself in the mirror she decided to spend her life savings on plastic surgery after turning 50.
Police are blaming terrorists for the blaze which engulfed the No.7 bus carrying 80 people at a crossing between Dongpo Road and Qingchun Road in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
The U.S. goalkeeper's stunning girlfriend is high-flying recruitment worker Sara McLean who is obsessed with the British royal family and was on reality TV show Big Brother two years ago.
American gadget guru Ali Kermani, 34, from Glendora, California, has come up with 'Crazy Cart' - a vehicle that not only goes forwards, but sideways and backwards while spinning and 'drifting' around corners.
Police and child care workers named the woman as 65-year-old Lillian May Thomson and said she was charged with child abuse involving at least five young in the Philippines.
Sarah Bird, right, of the Double Barrel Real Steakhouse and Grill in Thurcroft, near Rotherham, says Chris Hobson's (left) scathing TripAdvisor review is libelous.
Steven Adrian Smith was working as an electrical contractor at the Westminster building between 1979 and 1982 - and allegedly used locked cabinets in his office to hide information relating to child abusers known to the Paedophile Inform...
The hall at Redgrave Park, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, fell into a state of neglect and after the Second World War and was demolished due to a lack of money to repair it
Zack Danger Brown, of Columbus, Ohio, has received pledges of $7,409 from 1,123 backers since posting the simple request of raising $10 for a potato salad four days ago.
Gerard Baden-Clay's lawyer outlined a possible explanation for Allison Baden-Clay's death on Monday. He told the Brisbane Supreme Court that she could've fallen or jumped to her death while under the influence of anti-depressants in Apri...
Alison Saunders is understood to have insisted the Metropolitan Police re-investigate claims Lord Brittan (pictured) raped a 19-year-old woman at his London flat in 1967 because no questions were asked at the time.
The taxpayer-funded payout for David Mulcahy, of north London, has sparked outrage among victims' groups and MPs as he serves three life sentences for a four-year rape and murder spree.
Police in Malaysia have named the traveller as Robert Andrew Scott, but say he also uses the Muslim name Jamaluddin Mustafa and is usually seen in Islamic robes.
Sophie Hartley, 22, was sentenced to four years behind bars for her attack on 21-year-old neighbour Joe Arnfield during a heated row at her flat in Burnley, Lancashire.
The 96-mile (155km) stage follows a weekend which saw at least 2.5million people watch cyclists battle through Yorkshire's city streets and country lanes.
Three young men have been taken into custody in connection to the apparent murder of Gary, Indiana, police Officer Jeffrey Brady Westerfield (pictured), one of those men has been referred to by officers as 'a person of interest.'
The police and crime commissioner for North Wales says those arrested for shoplifting will directed to food banks in an attempt to reduce the number of thefts.
A photo of chemotherapy patient Amanda Veitch lying on the floor of Gold Coast University Hospital has gone viral after her sister Lisa Maree posted it on Facebook on Saturday.
Pistorius says he accidentally killed his model girlfriend after mistaking her for an intruder and opening fire through a door, but the prosecution say it was pre-mediated.
Novak Djokovic took the game 6-7 (7/9) 6-4 7-6 (7/4) 5-7 6-4 to win the men's singles title after a gripping match - his second Wimbledon championship win.
The Verruckt was scheduled to open at Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark in May but has faced repeated delays, now owner Jeff Henry has released video footage of him taking the plunge to prove that it is now safe for humans.
Simon Danczuk claims he came under ‘pressure’ from several people, including a current Conservative minister, not to name Lord Brittan in front of a Commons committee.
Alazar Ortiz was lighting a large professional-type display of fireworks in San Jose on Friday night when the trigger malfunctioned and exploded, costing him his right rand and three fingers from his left.
The steel columns of the memorial in London's Hyde Park were daubed with red and black slogans with the messages '4Innocent Muslims', 'Blair Lied Thousands Died' and 'J7 Truth'
Mr Bercow said it was 'somehow acceptable' to criticise people over their height when attacking someone for their skin colour or sexuality was widely accepted as being wrong.
