Protests continue to spread across US cities against the killing of black men by police, following recent deaths in Minnesota and Louisiana. Roads were blocked and missiles thrown in Minnesota, while armed New Black Panther Party members confronted police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dozens of arrests have been made but the...
Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least 35 people in an attack by so-called Islamic State (IS) at a Shia shrine in the Iraqi town of Balad. At least one bomber blew himself up outside the mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi, which was then stormed by gunmen, reports say. Another bomber is said to have blown...
Taliban bombers have attacked an Afghan police convoy outside the capital Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50 others, officials say. Two bombs hit a convoy of buses carrying graduates from a ceremony on the city's western outskirts. Paghman District Governor Musa Khan told the BBC that all but two of the dead...
THE trigger-happy president elect of the Philippines who vowed to “kill” drug dealers looks to have made good on his promise as scores of criminals have allegedly died at the hands of police in recent weeks. Rodrigo Duterte called drug dealers “sons of bitches” and referred to himself as a one man...
DOZENS of people have been killed and more than 200 seriously injured following a Taliban suicide car bomb attack on Afghanistan's national security agency. The attack, in Kabul, took plae at around 9.45 am local time, with witnesses saying the "very loud" blast hit the busy Puli Mahmood Khan area. The Taliban...
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 41 people in Ecuador, Vice-President Jorge Glas says. The quake struck at 18:58 local time on Saturday (23:58 GMT) near the northern coastal town of Muisne. Severe damage is reported in many areas, with a bridge destroyed as far south as Guayaquil about 300km (190 miles)...
RESCUE workers are sifting through a Hindu temple in southern India where at least 110 people died when a fireworks display — an unauthorised pyrotechnic display that went horribly wrong — swept through a temple packed with thousands for a religious festival. The death toll so far from the pre-dawn fire at the...
Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia said 18 ethnic-Armenian troops died in the fighting early on Saturday, among the worst in two decades. Azerbaijan said it had lost 12 troops and there were unconfirmed reports of civilian...
Rescuers have worked through the night to reach dozens of people believed to be trapped under a collapsed flyover in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta). The bypass was under construction in the Girish Park area when it collapsed suddenly on Thursday night. At least 23 people were killed and scores were injured. The 2km-long...