Trump faces a political test in Ohio as five states cast votesPresident Donald Trump faces a test of his political influence on Tuesday in a special congressional election in Ohio that has become a referendum on his leadership and a last chance to gauge Democrat...
Sandals point to victims in mosque shattered by Indonesia quakeA shattered mosque in quake-hit northern Lombok, where sandals remain scattered outside its entrance, has become a focal point of the rescue effort after one weeping man was hauled out of the wreckage...
Tribal chiefs face reckoning over rights to South Africa’s rural homelandsA hardscrabble patch of South Africa disputed between black farmers and tribal leaders working with platinum mining interests is legal ground zero in a battle to loosen the chiefs' grip on communal la...
Israeli strike kills two Hamas fightersIsraeli tank fire killed two Hamas militants in Gaza on Tuesday in a strike the Israeli military said was launched against a position from which its troops had come under fire. Hamas and Palestinian h...
Mexico’s new leader: ‘nobody will threaten us’ with wallMexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed Monday his country would not be threatened by a wall, in a thinly veiled rebuke to US President Donald Trump’s jabs across the border. “Mexic...
Twenty years after al Qaeda’s first big attack, Kenyans still bear scarsJust after 10:30 on a sunny August morning in downtown Nairobi, 48-year-old Ali Mwadama was walking toward a bank opposite the U.S. embassy, a cheque in hand. He was less than 50 metres (yards) from t...
Wife of Japan journalist held in Syria pleads for his releaseThe wife of a Japanese journalist kidnapped in Syria more than three years ago broke her silence Tuesday to plead for his release after he appeared in a hostage video. Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old fre...
Tourist exodus from Lombok as quake toll hits 98Terrified holidaymakers rushed for boats and planes to leave Indonesia's Lombok island Tuesday after it suffered a second deadly quake within a week, while rescuers struggled to reach hard-hit areas w...
In England’s forgotten ‘rust belt’, voters show little sign of Brexit regretTo Paul Green, a club steward in northern England's 'rust belt', Britain is so broken that he would vote for Brexit again were he to get another chance. Green, who runs a Miners' Welfare Club in an ar...
World at risk of heading towards irreversible ‘hothouse’ stateThe world is at risk of entering "hothouse" conditions where global average temperatures will be 4-5 degrees Celsius higher even if emissions reduction targets under a global climate deal are met, sci...
Massive wildfire becomes largest in California historyThe Mendocino Complex became the largest wildfire in Californian history on Monday as it raged at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest where crews battled to keep flames from descending i...
‘Makes me shake with rage’: Japan probe shows university cut women’s test scoresA Japanese medical school deliberately cut women's entrance test scores for at least a decade, an investigation panel said on Tuesday, calling it a "very serious" instance of discrimination, but schoo...
Police arrest 10 over latest lynching murder in IndiaIndian police said Tuesday that 10 people had been arrested over the murder of a man accused of kidnapping children in the latest lynching linked to rumours circulating on WhatsApp. More than 20 peopl...
Ivory Coast leader announces amnesty for Simone Gbagbo and 800 othersIvory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Monday announced amnesties for around 800 people, including former first lady Simone Gbagbo who is currently behind bars, in the name of national reconciliat...
Brazil closes, then reopens border to Venezuelan migrantsBrazil briefly closed then reopened its northern border to Venezuelans on Monday as it struggled to contain mass migration from the South American country saddled with a crippling political and econom...
Malaysian anti-graft agency asks former PM Najib to appearMalaysia's anti-graft agency has called on Najib Razak, the former premier who is embroiled in a graft scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), to appear at its office on Tuesday. Na...
NATO probing reports nine Afghan police killed in US air strikeNATO is investigating reports that at least nine Afghan police officers were killed in a US air strike during heavy fighting with the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, its mission said Tuesday. Afghan o...
Belarus detains three independent journalistsBelarusian authorities on Tuesday detained at least three journalists during searches of the offices of two independent news websites over "unauthorised" access to the services of the country's state...
Cat snap: Tokyo ‘lucky cat’ temple draws InstagrammersTokyo's Gotokuji temple has long attracted spiritual visitors with its thousands of figurines of beckoning white cats, thought to bring good luck. But of late it has brought in another breed: Instagra...
Eleven US passengers sue Aeromexico over plane crashEleven US passengers who survived an Aeromexico crash in the northern Mexican state of Durango on July 31 filed lawsuits against the airline in Chicago on Monday, according to a statement by Chicago-b...
Hawaii volcano eruption slows to virtual halt after more than three monthsThe destructive lava eruption at the foot of Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has slowed to a virtual halt in recent days for the first time in over three months, geologists said on Monday,...