It has been six months since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished over the Indian Ocean and yet the mystery endures. With 1,000 flight paths still to investigate, a new year-long search operation will be launched, according to the coordinating task force. ...
Scientists may have developed an effective vaccine for the Ebola virus after an experimental immunisation gave monkeys long-term protection from the deadly disease. ...
A six-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a mountain lion in California yesterday. ...
Switzerland would grant Edward Snowden asylum if he revealed the extent of espionage activities by the US government, recommendations by the Swiss Attorney General reportedly conclude. ...
Chinese police raided a ceremony in Beijing arranged by the families of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 to mark six months since the plane’s disappearance. ...
Russia has suggested that it may ban Western airlines from flying over its territory, in what it has called an “asymmetrical” response to new EU sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine. ...
Russia has suggested that it may ban Western airlines from flying over its territory, in what it has called an “asymmetrical” response to new EU sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine. ...
A French man convicted in one of history’s largest trading fraud cases emerged from a prison south of Paris on conditional release today before being fitted with an electronic tag. ...
Experts from across the world are attempting to understand whether a mysterious bang heard in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua on Saturday night was caused by a meteorite which broke off from a passing asteroid. ...
France’s new education minister – young, female and Moroccan-born – has become a lightning rod for all that is nasty in French politics. ...
Thousands of Nato troops wrapped up a week of military exercises in eastern Europe today, with the European Union also expected to send a strong signal to Russia and adopt a new sanctions package despite a tentative ceasefire in Ukraine. ...
African Union soldiers raped and sexually exploited women and girls on their peacekeeping bases in the capital, Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch has claimed. ...
The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially in Liberia, the World Health Organisation warned today. ...
Berkeley, the heartland of progressive politics since it hosted the hippie movement in the 1960s, is the first city in the US to give its residents access to free marijuana. ...
Berkeley, the heartland of progressive politics since it hosted the hippie movement in the 1960s, is the first city in the US to give its residents access to free marijuana. ...
A court has convicted a cult leader of sex crimes after he kept a harem of women who bore him dozens of children in a state of near total obedience. ...
The Boko Haram gunmen who swept into the township of Gulak brought with them a new message. Rather than sowing afresh the terror they have brought to swathes of north-east Nigeria by opening fire, the jihadists insisted they were here to stay and residents would not be harmed. ...
The Boko Haram gunmen who swept into the township of Gulak brought with them a new message. Rather than sowing afresh the terror they have brought to swathes of north-east Nigeria by opening fire, the jihadists insisted they were here to stay and residents would not be harmed. ...
Several hundred children in at least 10 US states have been treated for respiratory illnesses believed to have been caused by a rare and potentially fatal virus related to the common cold. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is reportedly testing samples for Enterovirus D68 from patients in ten states including Missouri, Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio,...
Amid pressure to form a unity government capable of defeating Isis militants, Iraq’s parliament has officially named Haider al-Abadi as prime minister and approved most of his Cabinet appointments. ...