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Harrison Ford plane crash: Actor survives crash-landing after losing engine power
Harrison Ford has been injured after his WW2 small plane crashed in California. Harrison Ford, 72, reported engine failure and crash-landed his vintage plane on...
Jodi Arias verdict: Judge declares mistrial after Arizona jury deadlocks
Jodi Arias has escaped the death penalty for murdering ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008 after an Arizona jury failed to reach a verdict on...
Jodi Arias verdict: Jury decides in Travis Alexander murder case after 6 days of deliberations
The Arizona jury deciding whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for killing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008 has reached a verdict...
Mark Lippert: US ambassador to South Korea attacked with knife at Seoul meeting
US ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert is in a stable condition after being slashed on the face by a militant Korean nationalist at...
Omar Trevino Morales: Zetas cartel leader captured in Mexico
Omar Trevino Morales, the leader of one of Mexico's most notorious drugs gang, the Zetas cartel, has been captured by security forces, Mexican officials...
Ukraine: Zasyadko mine explosion kills at least 30 people in Donetsk
At least 30 people have been killed in a suspected methane gas blast at a coal mine in a rebel-held region of eastern Ukraine,...
Villarrica volcano eruption: More than 3,000 people evacuated in southern Chile
Chile’s Villarrica volcano erupted in the early hours of March 3, spewing ash and lava up to 3,300ft into the air. More than 3,000 people...
Hyeon Soo Lim: Canadian pastor fails to return from North Korea
Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim has failed to return from a humanitarian visit to North Korea, an official from his church says. Reverend Hyeon Soo...
Iraq: Government forces retake districts from ISIS in Tikrit
Iraqi troops have retaken some districts around Tikrit in their fight to recapture the city from Islamic State (ISIS). A force of about 30,000 soldiers...
North Korea fires two short-range missiles as US-South Korea annual drills begin
The North Korean army fired two short-range missiles into the sea as annual US-South Korea drills got under way, officials in Seoul say. The two...
LAPD shooting: Police officers shoot homeless man dead in Skid Row
A video has captured the moment LAPD officers shot and killed a homeless man during an altercation at a homeless camp in central Los...
ISIS releases 19 Assyrian Christians kidnapped in Syria
ISIS has released 19 of an estimated 220 members of an Assyrian Christian community kidnapped in north-eastern Syria, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human...
Victor Arden Barnard: US sect leader held in Brazil
American self-professed minister Victor Arden Barnard, who was put on a US most-wanted list for allegedly molesting two girls in a "Maidens Group" at...
Ebola outbreak 2015: Sierra Leone VP Samuel Sam-Sumana in quarantine
Sierra Leone Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has put himself into quarantine after one of his bodyguards died from Ebola. Samuel Sam-Sumana said he would stay out...
Boris Nemtsov shot dead in central Moscow
Vladimir Putin’s critic and former Deputy PM Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in central Moscow, Russian officials say. An unidentified gunman, in a car,...
Servando “La Tuta” Gomez: Mexico’s most wanted drug lord captured
Mexico's most wanted drug lord, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, has been captured, Mexican police announced. Servando Gomez, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, was...
Leonard Nimoy dead: Star Trek’s Mr. Spock dies of COPD aged 83
Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy has died at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family has announced. Leonard Nimoy played Mr. Spock in...
Missouri shootings: Eight people shot dead at multiple sites in Tyrone
A gunman has killed 8 people and injured one person in a series of shootings in south-central Missouri. Police made the discoveries on February 26...
Avijit Roy murder: Mukto-Mona blogger killed in Bangladesh
Founder of Mukto-Mona blog Avijit Roy, whose writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners, has been killed in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Avijit Roy,...
Khalid al-Fawwaz guilty of plotting al-Qaeda bombing of US embassies in east Africa
Saudi national Khalid al-Fawwaz, a former aide of Osama Bin Laden, has been found guilty of plotting the al-Qaeda bombing of US embassies in...
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner case dismissed by Argentine federal judge
A controversial case against Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman has been dismissed by a federal judge on February...
Amedy Coulibaly: HyperCacher siege video transcript emerges
A transcript of a footage showing Paris gunman Amedy Coulibaly during a bloody rampage inside Jewish supermarket HyperCacher has been released nearly two months...
Jihadi John identified as Mohammed Emwazi from London
The masked ISIS militant with British accent known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages,...
Argentina dissolves intelligence agency after Alberto Nisman’s death
Argentina's Congress has voted to dissolve the country's intelligence agency. The Intelligence Secretariat will be replaced with a new federal agency that will be accountable...
Paris drones: Al-Jazeera journalists arrested for illegal flying of drone in Bois de Boulogne
French authorities have arrested three al-Jazeera journalists for the alleged illegal flying of a drone in Paris after being spotted by police in the...
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