Italy’s first black minister has said she feels “vindicated” after winning a four-year court battle against a far-right MEP who made repeated racist slurs against her. Mario Borghezio has been...
A member of Japan’s royal family, Princess Mako, is to surrender her royal status by marrying a commoner. The 25-year-old eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito will become engaged to law firm...
Indian largest restaurant and food delivery app Zomato announced Thursday that the data of 17 million users had been stolen from its database, including names, email addresses and protected...
A member of Japan’s royal family, Princess Mako, is to surrender her royal status by marrying a commoner. The 25-year-old eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito will become engaged to law firm...
A Taiwanese man was arrested Thursday for decapitating his sister in front of horrified neighbours, a week after another killer was jailed for beheading a three-year-old girl in the street. The...
A member of Japan's royal family, Princess Mako, is to surrender her royal status by marrying a commoner. The 25-year-old eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito will become engaged to law firm...
David Clarke, the cowboy hat-wearing black sheriff who gained fame for his support of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said Wednesday that he will join the administration as an assistant...
An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world’s lightest satellite, which will be launched at a Nasa facility in the US in June. Rifath Shaarook’s 64-gram (0.14 lb) device was...
The prison in Lae, Papua New Guinea, has seen repeated similar escapades over the years Prison guards have shot dead 17 inmates after a mass breakout at Buimo prison in Papua New Guinea. Three...
Ugandan rights activists say grisly images of the torture of a detained politician showing septic wounds on his body highlight escalating brutality and impunity by the country's security personnel....
New Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah must pay a staggering $100,000 as compensation for terminating his contract with Sudanese top-flight side Khartoum Watani FC, it has been claimed in the local media. The...
The former chief executive of South Africa's state-owned power utility is to return to the post, officials said Friday, less than five months after he resigned over a corruption scandal that rocked...
A Taiwanese man who decapitated a three-year-old girl in public on a busy Taipei street escaped the death penalty Friday as he was sentenced to life in prison. Wang Ching-yu, 34, had pleaded guilty...
Yangon police arrested several Buddhist nationalists Thursday for inciting violence after at least one man was left injured in a confrontation with local Muslims in Myanmar's largest city. Police...
A devout Christian who smashed a pie into Qantas chief Alan Joyce's face to protest gay marriage was charged on Thursday by Australian police with assault, trespassing and damage. The 67-year-old --...
An evangelical Nicaraguan pastor and four followers have been sentenced to 30 years for burning a woman to death in a so-called exorcism ritual. Vilma Trujillo, 25, died in February after being tied...
The suspect is said to have claimed responsibility for 20 deaths in Homs An asylum seeker has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Austria after being found guilty of killing 20 people...
At least 40 people were wounded Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, police said, the largest attack for months on a civilian target in the...
Campaigners hailed the move as the beginning of the end of "marine circuses" France has banned the breeding in captivity of dolphins and killer whales, in a move hailed by campaigners as a major...
Iran's armed forces warned President Hassan Rouhani against discussing the country's defence programme after he criticised the anti-Israel slogans written on the side of ballistic missiles, local...
