The shooting happened on the eve of a highly contested vote The funeral of the murdered vice-president of Pakistan's PTI party, Zahra Shahid Hussain, has been held at a mosque in Karachi. She was shot dead outside her home...
Couple flown to wrong continent after airline error
The couple had hoped to land in Dakar, on the Senegalese coast (left), but instead they ended up in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Photo: AP/ Alamy Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo were intending to fly from...
Terror Suspects Die After Kenyan Shootout
A pair of terror suspects have been shot dead by police in Kenya after attempting to use a baby as a human shield. Investigators were tipped off about the couple's location and raided an apartment in Nairobi, ordering the...
Tunisia police clash with Islamists
Police used tear gas to break up the crowds Tunisian police have clashed with hundreds of hardline Islamists whose group was prevented from meeting. Violence broke out in the central city of Kairouan and in the capital Tunis. The...
Chinese university in talks to open UK campus at former BBC site
China university: signing ceremony between Imperial College and Zhejiang university Photo: ZDNEWS Zhejiang University has signed an agreement with Imperial College London that could see it become a major partner in a new seven-acre site in White City....
Clashes in Tunisia over banned rally
REUTERS A police officer fires tear gas to break up a protest in the city of Kairouan. Kairouan, Tunisia - Supporters of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clashed with Tunisian police on Sunday after the government banned its...
Bissau declares 3 days of mourning for Rosa
AFP A file picture taken on April 16, 2012 shows Guinea-Bissau's former interim president Henrique Pereira Rosa. Bissau - Guinea-Bissau's government announced three days of mourning on Sunday following the death of former interim president Henrique Pereira Rosa. Flags...
Zambia frees students held over food subsidy protests
AFP Zambian police officers arrive at the University of Zambia where students protest against the government's removal of fuel and mealie meal subsidies on May 17, 2013 in Lusaka. Lusaka - Zambia police on Saturday freed the 31 university...
Algeria censors dailies over Bouteflika ‘coma’ reports
Reuters Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been transferred to France for further medical tests after suffering a minor stroke. File photo: Louafi Larbi, Reuters Algiers - Algeria censored two dailies over reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in Paris...
Iran executes two men for spying
Iran has hanged two men convicted of spying for Israel and the US, the authorities there have said. Mohammad Heydari was found guilty of passing intelligence on "security issues and national secrets" to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for...
Grieving father finds $4.85million winning lottery ticket in dead daughter’s bedroom days before facing eviction
19 May 2013 10:22 Ricardo Cerezo was left devastated by the death of his 14-year-old daughter Savannah, who died in August last year following a number of seizures Gift from the grave: Savannah Cerezo NECN.com A grieving father facing...
North Korea fires three short-range missiles. Why? (+video)
The firing of three short-range missiles Saturday by North Korea could be to improve their accuracy. Or it could be atmospherics as a period of tentative diplomacy begins. At a Seoul Train Station, a South Korean man watches a...
Sea of protesters fills streets in Rome
Thousands took to the streets on Saturday to protest austerity measures and advocate for job creation and workers' rights in Italy. The country is experiencing its longest recession since 1970, with unemployment rates soaring. Members of Italy's metalworkers union...
Showgirls dressed as Obama at Berlusconi’s ‘bunga bunga’ parties
Showgirls dressed as Obama, Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho, as well as nuns and nurses at former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's parties. Karima El Mahroug testified about showgirls dressing up at a prostitution trial in Italy. Karima el-Mahroug's is escorted...
Saudi woman scales Everest for first time
Saudi woman scales Everest with group of 64 climbers Saturday. Raha Moharrak, a 25-year old graphic designer, is the first Saudi woman to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. A 1963 photo shows the summit of Mt. Everest....
Powerball: Winning Ticket For Record Jackpot
One ticket has won the biggest Powerball lottery jackpot in history - an estimated $590.5m (£389m), US officials have said. It was bought at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, according to the state's lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. The winner...
Car Drives Into Crowd At Virginia Parade, 60 Hurt
Up to 60 people were injured when a car drove into a parade in a small Virginia mountain town. Witnesses immediately ran over to lift up the 1997 Cadillac to help free a woman trapped underneath it. Three of...
China Premier Li Keqiang in India
India has welcomed the Chinese premier's decision to make it his first foreign stop since taking office in March China's Premier Li Keqiang is travelling to India in the first stop of his maiden foreign trip since taking office....
Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing
The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed...
Winning ticket in $590 million lottery sold in Florida
The Powerball lottery in the US has a jackpot of $600 million this Saturday, the second largest in the country's history. By AP 7:13AM BST 19 May 2013 The winning numbers in the lottery were 22, 10, 13,...
Ignoring the foot soldiers is a grave mistake
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, acknowledges the frustrations of coalition government and insists that the Tories must go “forward with unity” on the European question Photo: WARREN ALLOTT William Hague brings a refreshingly common-sense approach to his role...
Eurovision: Denmark’s Emmelie De Forest Wins
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune Only Teardrops. There was tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. But Bonnie Tyler, who represented...
India’s weakened Congress wondering if early elections will help
Rahul Gandhi, a lawmaker, speaks to Sonia Gandhi (R), who is his mother and India's ruling Congress party chief, during the Indian National Congress meeting in Jaipur, capital of India's desert state of Rajasthan January 20, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Stringer...
Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older
An elderly couple feed their great-grandson with a piece of cake as they sit under the sun in winter in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, January 9, 2013. Credit: Reuters/William Hong By Li Hui and Maxim Duncan QIANTUN, China | Sun...
Nigeria army says crackdown to go on
Nigerian troops have been trying to flush out militants from their strongholds Nigeria's army has vowed to continue its offensive against militants in the north-east "as long as it takes" to achieve its main objectives. Brig Gen Chris Olukolade...
$590 million lottery drawn in US
The Powerball lottery in the US has a jackpot of $600 million this Saturday, the second largest in the country's history. By AP 4:43AM BST 19 May 2013 The winning numbers in the lottery were 22, 10, 13,...
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Calls Crack-Smoking Allegations “Ridiculous”
May 18, 2013 by The Master Chief As you have probably heard by now, Rob Ford , the mayor of Toronto, was recently captured on video smoking crack cocaine, and the shocking video could make its way to the...
Denmark crowned Eurovision winners
The moment Denmark's Emmelie de Forest realised she had won Denmark has triumphed at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Swedish city of Malmo. Emmelie de Forest, 20, had been the overwhelming favourite among the 26 entries,...
Is this where kidnapper spied on Madeleine McCann? Police narrow search to FOUR apartment blocks
British police probing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance now believe her kidnapper was staying in a holiday flat near the family. Scotland Yard detectives, who believe the youngster may still be alive , have narrowed their search to FOUR apartment blocks...
Chloe Johnson: Devastated mum feels empty inside after girl, 5, drowns on holiday in Egypt
The mum of a little girl who drowned in a holiday wave pool told yesterday of her agonising loss – and angrily claimed the pool had no lifeguards. Chloe Johnson, five, died on Friday at Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel...
Viral Video Showing Men Using “Labor Pain Simular” is a Fake
May 18, 2013 by GOT Staff Ask any woman, and they’ll tell you. Child birth sucks . And a pair of guys put out a video that went viral that shows them appearing to wear “simulators” that help them...
Cannes jewel heist was ‘almost certainly’ an inside job say French police
19 May 2013 00:01 Detectives are questioning an American woman working for Swiss jewellers Chopard, the festival sponsors Cara Delevingne was among the celebs wearing Chopard at this year's festival WireImage A £1million Cannes Film Festival jewellery heist was...
Up to 60 People Injured After Car Drives Into Parade-Goers in Virginia
May 18, 2013 by The Master Chief At least 50 to 60 people were injured after a car plowed through a group of hikers at a parade at a small town in Virginia. Among the injured were at least...
Father of Assad spokesman kidnapped
Faisal Mekdad is deputy foreign minister Gunmen in Syria have abducted the elderly father of Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, one of the most powerful voices in the government. The man was seized in the southern province of Daraa,...
Massacre suspect held in Ivory Coast
In April 2011, the ICRC's Kelnor Panglung described the aftermath of the massacre in Duekoue for BBC News The authorities in Ivory Coast have arrested a militia leader suspected of a role in one of the worst massacres during...
