One million people displaced by drought in Somalia: UN
A historic drought in Somalia has now displaced one million people and left the country in the shadow of famine, the United Nations said...
Up to 50 missing after migrant boat sinks off Greece
An air and sea rescue operation was underway Wednesday after around 50 people went missing when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea,...
Third fuel tank collapses as helicopters battle Cuban blaze
Cuban army helicopters scrambled to contain a blaze that felled a third tank at a fuel depot on Monday after burning for days, as...
World’s biggest chocolate plant restarts after health scare
A factory in Belgium billed as the world's biggest chocolate-making plant said it restarted operations Monday after closing for six weeks to clean up...
Thirty inmates saw out of Lebanon jail, escape: authorities
More than 30 people fled a Lebanon detention centre at dawn on Sunday, security forces said, after sawing their way through a window, according...
UK boy dies after life support stopped at end of long legal battle
A London hospital on Saturday withdrew life support for 12-year-old British boy Archie Battersbee after his parents lost a long, emotive and divisive legal...
Lightning strike near White House kills three people
Three people, including an elderly couple celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary, were pronounced dead Friday after being struck by lightning in a park near...
Women facing abuse during Kenya campaign: rights groups
Kenyan women have endured violence including rape, with female candidates subjected to a barrage of online abuse as East Africa's economic powerhouse prepares to...
New hangings take Singapore execution toll to 10 in four months
Singapore hanged two drug traffickers on Friday, authorities said, bringing the number of prisoners executed in the last four months to 10, despite international...
Update: Russian court jails US basketball star for nine years over drug smuggling (video)
A Russian court on Thursday found US basketball star Brittney Griner guilty of smuggling and storing drugs and sentenced her to nine years in...
