Gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Friday shot dead a Hamas official who was freed by Israel in a 2011 prisoner swap, the...
The Taliban captured a key district centre in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Thursday while in the...
The alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by five or six males was streamed on Facebook Live, according to...
Bangladesh police shot dead a suspected militant in the capital Dhaka on Saturday a day after a suicide bomber blew...
Uganda's second most prominent policeman was shot and killed in his car on Friday along with two other officers as he...
Thirteen people, mostly women and children, have been killed in central Kenya this week in a cycle of violence between...
Civilian vigilantes foiled a suicide attack on the outskirts of Nigeria's flashpoint city of Maiduguri, killing two...
An elephant whacked a trainer with its trunk and killed him at a Japanese zoo on Sunday, police said. Wichai Madee from...
Police in the Gambia say investigators have exhumed the body of Solo Sandeng who died in custody during the...
The one-month-old baby girl who was abducted when a car was stolen in Durban, South Africa Police in the South African...
At a checkpoint in northern Syria, a weary woman and her husband sit in a truck, surrounded by their belongings,...
Supporters of Donald Trump clashed with counter-protesters at a rally in the famously left-leaning city of Berkeley,...
Burned cars are seen in the street after clashes between Members of Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) Police in Democratic Republic...
A top official in Thailand's palace has been fired for "extremely evil" misconduct and political interests which...
Three senior Myanmar police officers have been jailed for failing to block deadly raids on border posts in October that...
The director of Ringing Bells, the Indian firm which claimed to be selling the world’s cheapest smartphone, has been...
More than 30 foreign-owned shops were looted last night in two neighbourhoods in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, a...
More than 30 foreign-owned shops were looted last night in two neighbourhoods in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, a...
Dozens of opposition supporters in the Gambia have been arrested by police in the western town of Kafenda – a...