A judge in Colombia has sentenced ten soldiers to 30 years in prison for murdering civilians and passing them off as rebels killed in combat. The soldiers were convicted for killing two restaurant workers in 2006 and presenting their bodies as rebel...
The American President Barack Obama says the latest economic statistics are an important sign the United States is heading in the right direction. President Obama said the economy had done measurably better than expected, but with an unemployment rep...
Reports from northern Nigeria say that the fighting between the security forces and militant Islamists who were blamed for fomenting violence across several northern states has worsened. Latest reports from the town of Maiduguri where the militants a...
Troops in Nigeria have been shelling the headquarters of a radical Islamist group, which is accused of being behind three days of violence across five northern states, which has left at least 100 people dead. The army is concentrating its attacks on...
More than 100 people have been killed in two days of continuing violence in northern Nigeria. There have been gun battles between Islamist militants and police in four mainly Muslim states. The clashes began when militants demanding the wider adoptio...
The American Middle-East envoy George Mitchell has reassured Israel of what he called Washington's unshakable commitment to its security during talks in Tel Aviv with the Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Relations have been tense since President Obama de...
Preliminary counting has begun following presidential and parliamentary elections in the autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Opposition parties have alleged voting irregularities, but the Iraqi Electoral Commission said the poll has been tr...
The deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya has made a brief crossing back into the country from neighboring Nicaragua for the first time since his removal from office in June. Mr. Zelaya crossed a few meters into Honduran territory. Steven Gibbs...
The German car giant Volkswagen has unveiled plans to take control of the German sports car firm Porsche. The move follows an abortive bid by Porsche to take over its lager rival who left it crippled with debts. The specialist high-performance Porsch...
Violent protests against poor living conditions are spreading in South Africa where more than 100 people have been arrested in a week of clashes. Police fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Johannesburg, the Western Cape and the north-eastern reg...
