Merkel, under fire from left and right, defends German immigration planGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel defended on Wednesday a deal on tightening immigration controls from attacks directed by both her Social Democrat coalition partners and the far-right opposition. The l...
Scuffles as Israel readies to demolish Bedouin villageScuffles broke out on Wednesday between Israeli authorities and protesters who feared preparations were underway to raze a Bedouin village in a strategic part of the occupied West Bank, despite intern...
Polish Supreme Court’s top judge defies ‘purge’Poland's Supreme Court chief justice showed up at work on Wednesday in defiance of a retirement law pushed through by the right-wing government but criticised by the EU as undermining judicial indepen...
Warm in blankets, Thai boys smile, joke with rescuer in caveTheir skinny faces illuminated by a flashlight, the Thai soccer teammates stranded more than a week in a partly flooded cave said they were healthy on a video released Wednesday, as heavy rains foreca...
Ageing Japan: Akita prefecture may be glimpse of country’s greying futureOn a recent weekday morning, a group of men in their 70s and 80s gathered for baseball practice just down the road from a junior high school where students were arriving to start the day. At full stre...
Refugee who fled violence mourns daughter slain in IdahoLittle Ruya Kadir had sparkling eyes, a few basic belongings and not much else when she arrived in Boise, Idaho more than two years ago. But at just six months old, she had the most important thing: A...
Exploding wildfires in US West derail holiday plansAgrowing wildfire destroyed more than 100 homes in the Colorado mountains, while other blazes across the parched US West kept hundreds of other homes under evacuation orders and derailed holiday plans...
WhatsApp ‘horrified’ over India lynchings, promises actionWhatsApp said Wednesday it was "horrified" by a spate of lynchings in India sparked by false rumours shared on its platform as the government accused the messaging service of irresponsibility. More th...
‘Unknown substance’ hospitalises two in UK’s SalisburyBritish police said Wednesday that two people are in a critical condition in a Salisbury hospital after being exposed to an "unknown substance" not far from where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and...
Captain of sinking Indonesian ferry sails onto reef; 31 deadThe captain of a sinking Indonesian ferry managed to steer his ship onto a reef to enable the evacuation of more than 100 passengers, but 31 people drowned as the vessel floundered in stormy seas, off...
Eritrea’s president visits Abu Dhabi crown princeEritrea's President Isaias Afwerki has made a rare trip abroad, meeting Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE operates a military base in Eritrea...
Two suspects arrested in Zimbabwe over Mnangagwa rally blast: policeZimbabwean police have arrested two suspects over a grenade blast that killed two people and injured 47 others at a campaign rally for President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month, local newspapers reporte...
Ex-Malaysian PM Najib charged with corruptionFormer Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was formally charged Wednesday with corruption linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat less than tw...
If you feel younger than your age, your brain might be tooThey say you're only as old as you feel, and now new research suggests that there may be some truth to the expression, finding that those who feel younger than their age actually do show fewer signs o...
Europe’s sunny weather makes for a sorry summer in ReykjavikPop singer Helgi Bjornsson, who is well-known in his native Iceland for a 1980s hit titled "I Do Like the Rain," recently appeared on national television while a deadpan reporter challenged him to def...