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Wellington - New Zealand police on Wednesday were contemplating whether to lay criminal charges or not after a seven-year-old Japanese...

ALJAZEERA - About 2,000 people have been killed and 700,000 displaced since December. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon made his...

Durban - A 32-year-old policewoman has handed herself over to police in connection with the fatal shooting of a policeman...

Cairo - An American anti-war activist who was trying to travel to the Gaza Strip was deported on Tuesday, airport...

Cape Town - Three people were shot dead in two incidents on the Cape Flats, Monday night. The first incident...

The first witness in Paralympian Oscar Pistorius's trial says she heard a woman's "blood-curdling" screams coming from his house, setting...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has thrown his weight behind Uganda's draconian anti-gay laws and hinted at a crackdown on homosexuals...

Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of sending thousands of additional troops to the southern Crimea region, which has a majority...

Serial killer Joanna Dennehy who carried out three savage murders during a 10-day killing spree, was sentenced to life imprisonment...

Ghana's health minister has given a hospital in the city of Kumasi 14 days to produce the bodies of five...

A senior Thai minister rejected a proposal for talks from the leader of an anti-government protest movement on Friday as...

North Korea launched four short-range missiles into the East Sea, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Thursday. The ministry said...

Andrew Young , 40, was killed after he was punched to the ground by Lewis Gill in Bournemouth, Dorset, after...

The Cote d’ Ivoire  Front (FPI) has said the release of its leader and former President, Laurent Gbagbo, remains crucial...

Uganda’s president signed a law yesterday imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality. The new bill strengthened existing punishments for anyone caught...

Spain’s government is under mounting pressure to explain the authorities’ handling of an incident earlier this month when at least...

  At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in bombings and shootings in northern Iraq and Baghdad on...

CNN is pulling the plug on “Piers Morgan Live” after just three years in a key primetime slot. The program,...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is expected to sign a bill Monday that criminalizes same sex marriage, a government spokeswoman told...

  A 26-year-old teacher Kelly Burgess, from Newport, south Wales, has been charged with a series of sexual offences against...