2015-07-05
The German football body was told to vote for Qatar for ‘economic reasons’, Fifa president tells a newspaper, adding that he is ‘tired of taking the blame’ ...
2015-07-04
More to this story What's next for WikiLeaks? NSA spied on Brazil, Mexico leaders: report The US spy agency bugged the phone of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff along with her top political and...
2015-07-04
CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, wearing battle dress for the first time in over a year, said Saturday that Egypt had foiled an attempt by the Islamic State group to seize territory and...
2015-07-04
Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong plans to travel to the US for the first time this week and said he expects US President Barack Obama to visit Vietnam later this year. The...
2015-07-04
VOA News Across the United States Saturday, Americans celebrated the 239th anniversary of their country's independence from Britain with parades, picnics, fireworks and concerts. President Barack...
2015-07-04
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Campaigns halt in Greece Saturday on the eve of a closely watched bailout referendum - with voters in a dead heat over whether to defy creditors and push for better repayment...
2015-07-04
Traffic along the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France was disrupted late Friday night when dozens of migrants attempted to enter restricted areas of the tunnel in Calais, officials said....
2015-07-04
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, aiming to repel a major Islamist-led offensive on areas...
2015-07-03
(Source: UN - United Nations) Ebola: as virus resurfaces in Liberia, UNICEF teams and supplies arrive in affected areas A girl washes her hands at the Slipway primary school in central Monrovia, the...
2015-07-03
PARIS France on Friday rejected a request for asylum by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has been living for the past three years in Ecuador's London embassy, where he took refuge to avoid...
2015-07-03
Syrian government forces mounted heavy air strikes against rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, the day after a major Islamist-led offensive on areas of the city...
2015-07-03
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, Tokyo 3 July 2015 From the section World Last year in Japan, more than 25,000 people took their own lives. That's 70 every day. The vast majority were men. Those...
2015-07-03
A Frenchwoman accused of killing eight of her newborns over more than a decade has been sentenced to nine years in prison after a dramatic murder trial. After deliberating a few hours in the northern...
2015-07-03
BEIJING (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 hit China's western region of Xinjiang on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The shallow quake struck 160 km (100...
2015-07-03
By of the Journal Sentinel An 11-year-old boy was seriously injured Thursday evening when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Milwaukee's south side, police said. The boy was struck...
2015-07-03
The Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered aircraft began its flight over the Hawaiian Islands Thursday as pilot passed 100 hours in the air, breaking all distance and duration world records for solar aviation...
2015-07-03
3 July 2015 From the section Science & Environment The oceans are at parlous risk from a combination of threats Scientists have warned that marine life will be irreversibly changed unless CO2...
2015-07-02
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed nearly 150 people in north-eastern Nigerian villages, mowing down men and children while they prayed in mosques and shooting women preparing food at home,...
2015-07-02
A group of heavily-armed militants has ambushed a United Nations convoy in northern Mali, killing at least five UN peacekeepers and injuring several others. The UN Mission in Mali, known as...
2015-07-02
The BBC is to cut more than 1,000 jobs while trying to reduce spending by £1.5 billion a year by 2017. The national broadcaster has blamed the need for “savings” on the seven-year freeze on licence...
2015-07-02
Three of the men convicted for their part in beating woman to death in Kabul are instead given 20-year sentences, with a fourth jailed for 10 years ...
2015-07-02
MONROVIA Liberia confirmed a third new case of the deadly Ebola virus on Thursday, as the disease re-emerges nearly two months after the outbreak was declared over in the West African nation, a senior...
2015-07-02
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The latest news on Greece's financial woes (all times local): --- 12:04 p.m. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said he will resign if there is a "Yes" vote in Sunday's...