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Spain demands US details of NSA surveillance
Spain has demanded the US to give details of any eavesdropping, amid reports it monitored 60 million Spanish telephone calls in a month. The US...
Niger: 35 migrants traversing Sahara desert die of thirst in Agadez
Thirty five migrants traversing the Sahara desert on their way to Europe have died of thirst in Niger, officials say. Rhissa Feltou, the mayor of...
Tadeusz Mazowiecki dies aged 86
Tadeusz Mazowiecki - Poland's first prime minister after the fall of communism - has died aged 86. Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski described him as "one...
Tiananmen car crash kills five people and injures 38 others
At least five people died and 38 others were injured after a vehicle crashed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Chinese state media have said. Three...
St Jude Storm: 140,000 homes without power in England and Wales
Around 140,000 homes are without power as St Jude storm continues to batter parts of England and Wales. According to specialists, St Jude storm could...
NSA secretly monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in one month
According to Spanish media, the NSA secretly monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in one month. The reports say the latest allegations came from...
HealthCare.gov: Obamacare website goes down
Obamacare website - HealthCare.gov - experienced a connectivity glitch on Sunday, another complication for an already beleaguered population of would-be health care applicants, the...
Angela Merkel’s phone bugging: NSA denies discussing operation with Barack Obama
According to NSA officials, the chief of the US spy agency has not discussed the alleged bugging of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone with...
Bangladesh opposition in 3-day strike over government’s failure to set up caretaker cabinet
Bangladesh's main opposition party and its allies have decide to begin a three-day strike over the government's failure to set up a caretaker cabinet...
New Express issues apology over Chen Yongzhou reports
Chinese newspaper New Express, which made front-page appeals for the release of its journalist Chen Yongzhou, has issued an apology over his report. The Guangdong-based...
Argentina parliamentary election 2013
Argentina is voting for legislative election - a key test for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The mid-term elections will determine how much control left-leaning...
Georgia presidential election ends Mikheil Saakashvili’s rule
Georgians are going to the polls to vote for a new president, ending a decade in power for pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili. The frontrunner among...
Angela Merkel’s phone tapped by US since 2002
According to a report in German newspaper Der Spiegel, the US has been spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone since 2002. Der Spiegel claims...
Syria: Kurdish fighters take control of Yarubiya border crossing from rebel groups
Syrian Kurdish fighters have taken control of Yarubiya border crossing with Iraq from Islamist rebel groups. The Yarubiya border post was captured after three days...
Shinzo Abe: Japan will stand up to China
In a recent interview, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe says other countries want Japan to adopt a more assertive leadership role in Asia to counter...
Iran: At least 17 guards killed in clash with gunmen on Pakistan border
At least 17 Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with gunmen on the border with Pakistan, the official Iranian news agency...
JP Morgan agrees $5.1 billion settlement with FHFA
JP Morgan has reached a $5.1 billion settlement with the US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) over charges it misled mortgage giants Fannie Mae...
Saudi Arabia warns women over driving protest
Saudi Arabia’s government has stepped up warnings to women not to defy a ban on female drivers by taking part in a mass driving...
Chen Yongzhou confesses to wrongdoing on state TV
Imprisoned Chinese journalist Chen Yongzhou, whose newspaper New Express has made front-page appeals for his release, has confessed to wrongdoing on state TV. "I'm willing...
North Korea releases six South Koreans
Six South Korean men have been returned by North Korea to their homeland, South Korean officials say, in a rare move. The men, between the...
Madagascar holds first presidential election since 2009 coup
Madagascar voters are going to the polls in the first election since the military-backed coup in 2009. Thirty-three candidates are contesting the election, which has...
Bo Xilai appeal and upheld his life sentence rejected by Chinese court
Shandong court in China has rejected the appeal of former politician Bo Xilai and upheld his life sentence for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of...
Prince George christening: Official portraits released
Queen Elizabeth II has been pictured with three future kings – Prince Charles, Prince William and newborn Prince George. This is the first such image...
UEFA opens disciplinary case against CSKA Moscow over fans racist behavior
UEFA has decided to open disciplinary proceedings against CSKA Moscow for the "racist behavior of their fans" during their home Champions League match against...
Chen Yongzhou case: New Express publishes second plea for his release
Chinese newspaper The New Express has published a second front-page plea for the release of its journalist Chen Yongzhou held by police. The New Express...
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