World News

At least forty-one people, including two children, have died after a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing on Sunday. The Aeroflot aircraft burst into flames at Sheremetyevo, Moscow busiest…

Gaza militants fired new barrages of rockets at Israel on Sunday in a deadly escalation that has seen Israel respond with waves of strikes as a fragile truce again faltered, sparking fears of further…

Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the U.S. outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base…

US border authorities plan to give migrant families DNA tests to determine whether or not the adults and children are related, Department of Homeland Security officials said Wednesday.A “Rapid DNA” test program is being…

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who spent almost seven years inside the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK before his arrest last month, has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his 2012 bail…

Japanese Emperor Akihito announced his abdication at a palace ceremony Tuesday in his final address, as the nation embraced the end of his reign with reminiscence and hope for a new era. “Today, I am concluding my…

Penis amputation as it is called in Brazil is bothering their president because in one year about 1,000 men do penis amputations. Sadly penis amputations are done because of many reasons: Lack of personal hygiene…

The U.S. State Department has issued a heightened travel warning for Sri Lanka after last Sunday’s suicide bombings that killed more than 250 people. The department is urging Americans to “reconsider…

Two septuagenarian grandfathers are sparring over who possess more relative youthful vigor, as US President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden circle each other in one of the first overt…

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, have been discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka. A police spokesman on Saturday said three suspected…

Two of the suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were members of a prominent and wealthy family in Colombo, sources have told CNN, in a development that has rocked the small Muslim community…

Fresh details have emerged about Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, a former UK student who is suspected of carrying out a Sri Lanka suicide bombing. Mohammed travelled to UK on 1 January 2006 and returned to…

Sri Lanka has revised down the death toll from Sunday’s blasts by more than 100, to “about 253”, the health ministry says. It has blamed a calculation error. Suicide bombers struck hotels and churches…

US President Donald Trump on Thursday cast doubt on Joe Biden’s mental capacity for a successful primary campaign as the seasoned Democrat became the latest to join the 2020 race for the White House.…

Pyongyang, the capital and largest city of North Korea, on Thursday threatened a “corresponding response”, three days after South Korea and the U.S. kicked off two weeks of joint air-force drills.The “acts of perfidy’’ by…

Former US vice president Joe Biden has announced his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election. Launching his campaign for the Democratic nomination, the 76-year-old posted on Twitter: “The core…

The Catholic Church is the spiritual home to 1.1 billion people around the world. It's also a big business that handles billions of dollars.Here's how it makes money and how it spends it. 1. The Vatican Bank has $8 billion in…

This is the moment one of Sri Lanka suicide bombers walked into a church just moments before detonating a device. CCTV footage shows one of the attackers entering St Sebastian's Church -- a man wearing a…

A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma. Munira Abdulla, who…

The suspected leader of a New Mexico militia group allegedly boasted of plans to assassinate former President Barack Obama, the FBI has said. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, and his group United…

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday unveiled a new branch of government, a Ministry of Possibilities, three years after launching a department in charge of happiness.Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the UAE’s premier and…

Saudi Arabia has executed 37 people who were convicted in terrorism-related cases, the Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday. The 37 people were all Saudi nationals, who received the death penalty for…

Britain’s youngest royal, Prince Louis, turned one on Tuesday, but the world was anxiously awaiting news from his aunt and uncle, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their first child…

The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed a series of bombings that killed more than 320 people in Sri Lanka. “Those that carried out the attack that targeted members of the US-led coalition and…