One of India’s most colourful and controversial politicians, Jayaram Jayalalitha, has been jailed on corruption charges in a high-profile case which has lasted for 18 years. The chief minist... Read more
Cuba will send a total of 461 doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic, local media reported Friday. The first batch of 165 healthcare workers will arrive in Sierra... Read more
Seven people have been suspended or removed from their posts following a fatal primary school stampede in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Friday afternoon. The accident killed six stude... Read more
Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. (Reuters/Stri The US is creating in Syria a... Read more
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak arrived at court on Saturday for the verdict in his murder retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him. The 86-ye... Read more
American warplanes and drones hit Islamic State group tanks, Humvees, checkpoints and bunkers in airstrikes Friday targeting the extremists in Syria and Iraq, as the U.S.-led coalition expan... Read more
A manhunt is under way after a knife-wielding attacker, reportedly on a rickshaw, stabbed four children to death as they walked to school in southern China. Three of the primary school pupil... Read more
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma has widened a quarantine to include another one million people in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola. The northern districts of Port Loko and B... Read more
A South Carolina state trooper has been sacked and arrested after shooting an unarmed man whom he had seconds earlier pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. Sean Groubert, 31, who is white,... Read more
Floyd Mayweather told regulators on Wednesday that the ‘reality’ TV show promoting Marcos Maidana fight was almost completely made up. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the box... Read more
