Swedish parliament ousts PM in vote of no-confidenceSweden's centre-right opposition and the far right ousted Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in a vote of no-confidence on Tuesday, as the left and right blocs wrangle over who can form a new government aft...
German Catholic Church to own up to decades of child abuseGermany's Catholic Church was Tuesday due to confess to thousands of cases of sexual assault against children, but victims blasted it for failing to reveal the true scale of the abuse and end decades...
Research finds that height and varicose vein risk may be linkedNew US research has found that the taller a person is, the higher their risk may be of developing varicose veins. Led by Stanford University School of Medicine, the new study analyzed the genes of 493...
Nearly 170 charged with forming ‘Bahrain Hezbollah’Bahrain's attorney general charged nearly 170 people on Tuesday with forming a Shiite "terrorist organisation" named for Lebanon's famed militant group Hezbollah. The small but strategic Gulf Arab kin...
Spain’s Socialists seen easily winning election in pollSpain's Socialists (PSOE) would win 30.6 percent of the vote if an election was held today, an official poll showed on Tuesday, up from a previous poll held in August which predicted the party headed...
War-weary Mozambicans yearn to leave Malawi havenHundreds of people who fled to Malawi from fighting in Mozambique are finally poised to go home, desperate to reach their untended farms now that the guns have fallen silent. Patricia Ekeson, 32, was...
US accuses Myanmar military of ‘planned and coordinated’ Rohingya atrocitiesA US government investigation has found that Myanmar's military waged a "well-planned and coordinated" campaign of mass killings, gang rapes and other atrocities against the Southeast Asian nation’s R...
‘Ka pai’: New Zealand’s Maori language back from brinkBeneath the carved timber roof of a traditional "marae" meeting house at Wellington High School, dozens of students watch entranced as a play performed entirely in the Maori language unfolds. Many onl...
Sri Lanka ready to welcome toppled Maldives strongmanThe defeated strongman of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, is welcome in neighbouring Sri Lanka, Colombo said Tuesday, two days after his surprise defeat in presidential elections. Sri Lanka has long bee...
Duterte foe arrested after Philippine court revives old rebellion chargesPhilippine police on Tuesday arrested a lawmaker who is among President Rodrigo Duterte's most vocal critics, just minutes after a court issued a warrant on revived charges of rebellion that were drop...
Father of boy saved in Paris ‘Spiderman’ drama in courtWhen a Malian illegal immigrant rescued a child dangling from a Paris balcony, he was hailed worldwide as a hero -- but the little boy's father will appear in court Tuesday charged with negligence. Ma...
UK to favour skilled migration, no EU preference after Brexit — reportsPrime Minister Theresa May and her ministers have agreed to focus Britain's post-Brexit migration system on high-skilled migrants and will not offer preference to European Union workers, newspapers sa...
Venezuela’s Maduro accuses Chile, Colombia, Mexico of helping drone attackVenezuela's socialist president Nicolas Maduro accused the right-wing governments of Chile, Colombia and Mexico on Monday of helping "terrorists" who tried to kill him during a drone attack in early A...
Does the UN’s Syria peace process still have a purpose?When your job has been labelled "mission impossible," failure may be the most likely outcome. There is no doubt that the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has persevered thro...
Iran in the spotlight as Trump, Rouhani set for UN clashA showdown looms at the United Nations over Iran on Tuesday as President Donald Trump and Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani are set to square off during the world's biggest diplomatic gathering. On the op...
‘Love Corbyn, hate Brexit’: Labour faces Brexit splitBritain's main opposition Labour Party is bracing for a tumultuous debate on the toxic issue of Brexit at its annual conference on Tuesday amid deep divisions between delegates. Many young members opp...
Singapore diplomat urges repeal of ‘antiquated’ gay sex lawOne of Singapore's most influential diplomats called Tuesday for the repeal of a law criminalising sex between men, saying it was time for the modern city-state to abandon the "antiquated" legislation...
New York seeks to claw back ‘Big Oyster’ pastOne sunny morning in New York, a dozen biologists and volunteers stand in knee-deep water, chucking net sacks of oyster shells down a human chain, before planting them in containers on the riverbed. W...