Indonesia’s double disaster exposes earthquake lessons not learnedThe young man standing atop a mound of grey mud and debris on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, waiting for an excavator he hoped would dig out the bodies of his parents, voiced the exasperation many...
Search teams comb debris for victims of deadly Hurricane MichaelSearch and rescue teams on Friday faced a second day of sifting through the ruined landscape left by furious Hurricane Michael as it devastated coastal communities in the Florida Panhandle. With the d...
Canada makes final preparations before cannabis becomes legalCanada on Friday will become the second country in the world to legalize cannabis -- with the provinces left to work out the details of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's landmark measure. From October 1...
Japan PM Abe to make rare China visitShinzo Abe will pay the first visit to China by a Japanese prime minister since 2011 later this month, Beijing announced Friday, in the latest sign of warming ties between the rivals. Abe will visit f...
Pik Botha, global face of South Africa’s apartheid state, dies at 86Pik Botha, who became the global face of South Africa's reviled apartheid government as Pretoria's minister of foreign affairs, has died aged 86 after a lengthy illness, the eNCA news network reported...
Branson suspends Saudi links over missing journalistBritish entrepreneur Richard Branson is suspending two directorships linked to tourism projects in Saudi Arabia following the unexplained disappearance in Turkey of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I...
Turkish court rules to release US pastor BrunsonA Turkish court ruled on Friday to release the US evangelical Christian pastor at the centre of a bitter diplomatic row between Ankara and Washington, a move that could be the first step towards mendi...
Doctors warn of global C-section ‘epidemic’Worldwide Caesarean section use has nearly doubled in two decades and has reached "epidemic" proportions in some countries, doctors warned Friday, highlighting a huge gap in childbirth care between ri...
Canonisation: how to become a Catholic saintThe canonisation Sunday of Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980, and of Paul VI, who was pope from 1963 to 1978, is the last stage in the Vatican's arduous process of creating saints. The Rom...
Anger as poverty-hit PNG buys 40 Maseratis for APECPapua New Guinea has bought 40 Maserati sports cars to chauffeur world leaders around next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, triggering an outcry from critics who say the poverty-stric...
Erased from history: Vietnam’s shunned WW1 veteransJust one photo is all that remains of Dang Van Con, a young Vietnamese repairman shipped to France at the outset of the First World War along with tens of thousands of colonial conscripts from Indochi...
In Florida beach hamlet, not much left after Hurricane MichaelWalk through the deserted, debris-clogged streets of this little resort town after Hurricane Michael largely destroyed it and, oddly, one of the few things you hear are fire alarms -- blaring away fro...
At least 31 dead after Uganda ‘landslide’: officialAt least 31 people have been found dead in eastern Uganda after heavy rains caused a landslide, a government official said Friday. "The number of confirmed dead as of now is 31 people," Commissioner f...
The image that captured an Austrian region’s fateful choiceIn the southern Austrian region of Carinthia, the anniversary of the end of World War I stirs memories of how borders shifted after the conflict, changing the lives of its inhabitants. As Carmen Kuste...
Catalonia’s separatist front shattersCatalonia's separatist parties that brought the region to the brink of breaking away from Spain a year ago, shattered their united front this week in a struggle over strategy toward independence. The...
Afghan official: Taliban attacks kill 8 in country’s northAn Afghan official says attacks by the Taliban in the country's north have killed eight people — four soldiers and four civilians. Military spokesman Hanif Rezaie says the troops died in Kunduz provin...
Germany to extradite suspect in Bulgarian journalist killing ‘soon’A German court said Friday that a man suspected of the rape and murder of Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova would be extradited to Bulgaria in the coming days. "The extradition of the...
Vietnam blogger sentenced again after Facebook postsVietnam on Friday jailed a blogger who posted critical material on Facebook for five years, his second sentence in less than a month as a hardline administration tightens its grip on dissent. More tha...
Germany’s Greens flourish while mainstream rivals flounderWhile other mainstream political parties in Germany flounder in polls and struggle to answer a far-right challenge, the Greens have gained strength as a magnet for liberal-minded voters. Offering a co...
France raises pressure on Saudi over Khashoggi disappearanceFrance demanded on Friday that Saudi Arabian authorities provide detailed and truthful answers over the fate of veteran Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared in Turkey over a week ago. Fra...
As Brexit talks progress, UK PM May struggles to find support at homeBritish Prime Minister Theresa May was struggling on Friday to find consensus on Brexit proposals that would be acceptable to her ministers, her Conservative Party and the Northern Irish lawmakers who...
Hundreds attend funeral of murdered Bulgarian journalistHundreds of Bulgarians queued silently at a church in Ruse on Friday to pay their last respects to Viktoria Marinova, the television journalist whose brutal rape and murder shocked the country and tri...
Germany extends Austria border controls over migrantsGermany said Friday it was extending by another half year border controls with Austria, which were reintroduced in several places in the passport-free Schengen zone in response to the migrant influx....
Saudi team arrives in Turkey for Khashoggi investigation: sourcesA delegation from Saudi Arabia has arrived in Turkey as part of a joint investigation into the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, two Turkish sources said on Friday. A Saudi...