Kentucky hills ring with machine gun fire at Knob Creek Gun ShootPaul Winters has been coming to the Knob Creek Gun Shoot since 1992 to blast away at targets with machine gun rounds. "This is Disneyland with guns," Winters said of the two-day event held twice a yea...
Planes, rebels and elephants: Indonesia gears up for jumbo pollsFrom sending ballot boxes by elephant in Sumatra to keeping voters safe in Papua's rebel territory, Indonesia is pulling out all the stops for one of the world's biggest one-day polls across a vast ar...
Thwarting fraud: thousands to ‘crowd-source’ Indonesian election resultsMore than 10,000 people have volunteered to crowd-source election results posted at polling stations across Indonesia on Wednesday in a real-time bid to thwart attempts at fraud during the biggest sin...
Halal ink, giant ballots ready for Indonesian voteNearly 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday. President Joko Widodo, the first Indonesian president from outside the Jakarta elite, is com...
Billionaires and private donors mobilise to rebuild Notre-DameBillionaires and private donors pledged hundreds of millions of euros on Tuesday to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris which has been devastated by fire. President Emmanuel Macron has vowed th...
More than 100 arrested at London climate protestsMore than 100 people have been arrested in ongoing climate change protests in London that brought parts of the British capital to a standstill, police said Tuesday. Demonstrators started blocking off...
Algerian rights lawyer Mustapha Bouchachi, a leading voice for changeEmotion filled the voice of Mustapha Bouchachi as the Algerian veteran lawyer and human rights activist recalled the peaceful mass protests that swept aside President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The young p...
Australian grandmother in emotional reunion with IS fighter’s orphansAn Australian grandmother to children of a notorious Islamic State group fighter has tracked down the orphans in a Syrian refugee camp in an emotional reunion she hopes will lead to their return home....
Poroshenko 2.0: Ukraine leader reboots campaign ahead of presidential run-offFlanked by rock musicians wearing yellow overalls and black t-shirts with skulls on them, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko pumped his fist, danced to the music and waved to supporters outside a so...
African Union threatens to suspend Sudan’s membership unless military council steps downSudan’s protest leaders piled pressure on the country’s new military rulers on Monday to hand over power immediately to a civilian government. ? They were joined by the African Union, which threatened...
Egypt parliament to vote on extending El-Sisi ruleEgypt’s parliament, packed with loyalists of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, is to vote Tuesday on changes to the constitution that could keep the former military chief in power until 2030. The propos...
Japan, US struggle to find crashed jet and its ‘secrets’One week after an F-35A stealth fighter jet crashed off the northeastern coast of Japan, US and Japanese military vessels are struggling to find the wreckage and protect its valuable “secrets.” The Ja...