OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso- Around 20 people in east-central Burkina Faso have been killed in attacks by suspected jihadists, sources said on Friday. Armed men on Monday raided the village of Kaongo in the border province of Koulpelogo, killing at least 11 people including two women and children, and...
MILAN, Italy-Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was discharged on Friday from a hospital in Milan, where he was admitted more than six weeks ago suffering from leukaemia and a lung infection. The 86-year-old billionaire media mogul was driven away from the San Raffaele Hospital without making...
In a tragic incident that has stirred public outcry, two Staffordshire bull terriers named Marshall and Millions were fatally shot by Metropolitan Police officers in London. According to a report from Doncaster Free Press, the dogs were allegedly involved in an attack on a woman, prompting the...
GENEVA, Switzerland- It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned Wednesday as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring. There is a two-thirds chance that at least one of...
NAIROBI, Kenya - The death toll in a probe into a Kenyan cult suspected of urging followers to starve themselves to death rose to 226 on Wednesday after 15 more bodies were found, the authorities said. Investigators are poring over the forest hideout of a group called the...
NEW YORK, United States - Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase" with paparazzi in New York, a spokesperson for the couple said Wednesday. But police and even the mayor of New York City, as well as a taxi driver who briefly transported the...
NEW YORK, United States- A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York on Wednesday, setting a record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon -- which dates to the late ninth to early 10th century -- is the earliest...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Jewels belonging to an Austrian billionaire whose German husband made his fortune under the Nazis raked in more than $200 million, auctioneers Christie's said Monday. The $202 million raised far exceeds the previous record, set during the 2011 auction of the...
BU MA, Myanmar - The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar rose to at least 81 on Tuesday, according to local leaders, officials and state media, as villagers tried to piece together ruined homes and waited for aid and support. Mocha made landfall on Sunday with winds of up to 195...
LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Tuesday signed into law a bill decriminalising euthanasia adopted by parliament last week, after a painstaking legislative process. The issue has divided the deeply Catholic country and witnessed strong...
WASHINGTON, United States- US President Joe Biden cut back a major upcoming trip to Asia and will return to Washington early for talks to avert a potentially catastrophic debt default, the White House said Tuesday. Biden flies to Japan on Wednesday for a G7 summit, but subsequent stops in...
LUCKNOW, India - A woman won a local election in India almost two weeks after her death as supporters kept their pledge to back her in a sign of respect, officials said. Ashiya Bi polled at nearly 44 percent in the race for a municipal civic body seat in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh...
