Erdogan, ruling AK Party take early lead in Turkish electionsTayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party took an early lead in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, according to preliminary partial results, boosting the president's hopes of extending h...
In about-face, Iraq’s maverick al-Sadr moves closer to IranMuqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric who emerged as the main winner in Iraq's parliamentary elections last month, campaigned on a platform to end sectarian politics and replace it with a govern...
Full STEAM ahead for US youngsters learning the art of scienceIn a room at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, beyond a vast space where paintings and sculptures are displayed, around a dozen students gather at small tables. Henry, 15, is hard at work de...
Merkel presses over migration as ‘European solution’ failsGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she would seek direct deals with separate European Union states on migration, conceding that the bloc was unable to quickly find a joint solution to an i...
US moves 100 coffins to North Korean border for war remainsThe US military said it moved 100 wooden coffins to the inter-Korean border to prepare for North Korea’s returning of the remains of American soldiers who have been missing since the 1950-53 Korean Wa...
Quite a mud-dle! Filipino devotees slather themselves in soilThey say there's nothing quite like it for cooling the blood, but for more than a thousand Filipinos at a Catholic festival on Sunday, slathering their bodies in mud was a way to show devotion and hum...
Spain’s first ‘stolen babies’ case comes to trialA former doctor will go on trial on Tuesday in Madrid for allegedly stealing a newborn baby from her mother and giving her to another woman, a practice thought to have affected thousands of families d...
In Latvia, school language reform irks Russian minorityRiga's plans to impose Latvian as the main teaching language in minority schools has created tension among some of its ethnic Russian population, resurrecting a long-running dispute with Latvia's form...
Key talks to open on boosting world’s chemical watchdogGlobal powers will seek next week to take a historic step in the fight against chemical weapons by giving the world's toxic arms watchdog new power to identify those behind such attacks. Widely shunne...
South Africa’s battle to resuscitate cancer careSouth African electrician Phiwankosi Mkhize was diagnosed with lung cancer in May last year and told by the hospital to come back for a scan in 15 months. But after just 12 months he died, before havi...
Trump adviser Kushner says will publish Mideast plan ‘soon’: newspaperJared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's senior adviser, said that he is "ready to work" with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Kushner, who is married to Trump'...
Mexico pride march poses questions for leftist presidency favouriteTens of thousands of gay rights supporters marched through Mexico City on Saturday with both hope and some nagging doubts about the prospect of a presidential election victory by leftist front-runner...
Erdogan: Turkey’s pugnacious ‘chief’ with eye on historyAfter 15 years in power that have already seen Turkey transformed, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to win a new mandate and rank as the key figure of his country's modern history alongside its fo...
War, wine and wonders: hopefuls vie for place on UNESCO heritage listInuit hunting grounds, World War I cemeteries, Art Deco heritage in Mumbai and Italy's wine-producing Prosecco hills are among 30 hopefuls in the running to join UNESCO's famous list as the World Heri...
Fiery Turkish MP Ince wants to be ‘everyone’s president’Muharrem Ince has in the space of weeks risen from being a fiery parliamentarian to a presidential candidate who has energised the Turkish opposition and poses a serious challenge to President Recep T...
Indonesia’s debus fighters: tough as nailsMulyadi pounds a nail into his nostril, leaving it embedded in his face, horrifying a group of slack-jawed spectators of debus, an Indonesian tradition blending martial arts with grotesque self-injury...
Trump defends policies on border, North Korea in visit to Las VegasPresident Donald Trump defended his tough stance on immigrants crossing the US border with Mexico on Saturday, praising his administration for a job well done and saying his approach will make the Uni...
Assad pledges to regain control of northern Syria by force if neededThe Syrian army will regain control of the country's north by force if rebels there refuse to surrender, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian television channel NTV on Sunday. A...