The Hong Kong Police has filed criminal charges against an 18-year-old Hong Kong student who was shot by a Police officer as pro-democracy protests hit a new level of violence. Police told reporters...

The Turkish Defence Ministry on Tuesday said it had concluded all preparations for a military incursion into northern Syria. This is coming just a day after United States President, Donald Trump announced...

Former United States President, Jimmy Carter fell in his Plains, Georgia home on Sunday and received some stitches above his eye brow. His spokeswoman, Deanna Congileo said in an email that the 95-year-old...

North Korea’s top negotiator, Mr. Kim Myong Gil on Saturday night said that the nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington had broken off, dashing expectations of an...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has designated a man who has confessed to nearly 100 murders and is serving multiple life sentences in a California prison as the most prolific serial killer...

A United States federal judge on Monday rejected a bold argument from President Donald Trump that sitting presidents are immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorney’s...

The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres on Monday said the body is running a deficit of $230 million and may run out of money by the end of October. In a letter intended for the 37,000...

 About 104 persons have been killed and some 6,000 others injured following protests in Iraq which began last  week. According to the country’s Interior Ministry, eight of the dead are members...

United States researchers, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza as well as Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. According...

The Police in London say they have arrested 21 climate change activists over the past few days as the Extinction Rebellion group attempts to draw attention to increasing global warming. The capital’s...

A painting by England’s anonymous street artist, Banksy showing the British House of Commons overrun by chimpanzees has sold at auction for just under £9.9 million. Expected to fetch up to £2 million,...

At least five persons were killed after an Antonov-12 transport plane crash-landed near Lviv Airport in western Ukraine on Friday morning. Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister, Vladislav Krikliy said...

The wife of the French Police employee who killed four colleagues at the Paris Force’s Headquarters on Thursday says he had a psychotic episode, was incoherent and heard voices the night before. The...

United States prosecutors say jailed Mexican drug lord, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzman gave $1million bribe to the brother of the President of Honduras, which was meant to reach the country’s leader. The...

A zebra which ran away from a circus in Tessin, northeastern Germany has been shot dead on a highway by the police after causing traffic accidents and material damage.  A press release by the Rostock...

The first cannabis restaurant in the United States has opened in West Hollywood, offering diners an array of weed product Named Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe, the hyped 240-seat establishment is open...

A rare World War II era plane has crashed at an airport in Connecticut, the United States, killing seven people. Thirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17, dubbed the Flying Fortress when it...

Indonesia’s new Parliament on Tuesday unanimously elected and swore in Puan Maharani as the country’s first female Speaker of the House of Representatives.  The swearing in of the 46-year-old...

Dozens of people have been injured after Iraqi security forces fired live bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in Baghdad, the country’s capital. A Tuesday...

Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday said it has convicted three people of spying for the United States, sentencing one of them to death and jailing two others. Yet another man was jailed for spying for...