A knife-wielding attacker hacked five persons to death in central China on Friday before being shot dead by the police, two weeks after deadly stabbing spree at a railway station left 33 people dead. The...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said Thursday it had agreed to halt a wave of rocket fire on Israel, signaling an end to the heaviest fighting between the sides since 2012, though soon after the announcement seven rockets fired from Gaza exploded inside Israel. The...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said he has called President Barack Obama to "express frustration" over US digital surveillance. The 29-year-old said in a blog post the US government "should be the champion for the internet, not a threat". His comments come a day after a...
A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s southern Kyushu island today, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, but no tsunami warning was issued. The epicentre of the quake -- which...
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors say dozens of gunmen on motorbikes in northern Nigeria have killed more than 100 villagers in an ongoing conflict over land. They say scores of people are fleeing on foot from four attacked villages about 110 miles (180 kilometers) west of Katsina city. Residents...
Turkish Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdogan today accused his opponents of trying to stir up chaos ahead of key local elections later this month, a day after clashes in which two people died....
Cunliffe had pleaded guilty to putting her black-and-white Mowgli in the microwave for five minutes after she thought it attacked her goldfish. She was arrested and charged with causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, in a killing that District JudgeJohn Foster called an “act of...
Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarling Just after Vladimir Putin replaced Boris Yeltsin as Russia's new leader, he shared an insightful story concerning his political mindset. Growing up in one of Russia's many post World War II poverty-stricken communes, he would often chase hordes of rats...
Reuters March 13, 2014 - 16:01 By Mirwais Harooni and MissyRyan KABUL, March xx (Reuters) - The soldiers were asleep when attackers struck their outpost, tucked in the mountains of Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar and on the front lines of a deepening war between the army and a potent...
