Mexican police have arrested a suspect in the massacre of nine US Mormons, as it emerged that a 13-year-old boy travelling in the ambushed convoy hid his siblings and walked for six hours across the desert to raise the alarm. […]
Buildings in Fallujah still bear the scars and bullet holes from 2004, when US forces fought jihadist insurgents through the streets in two of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq War. Conflict returned to the city in 2016 as Iraqi […]
Donald Trump’s son has tweeted the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint about the US president’s behaviour towards Ukraine kick-started the impeachment inquiry. For days now conservative websites have been publishing stories claiming to have discovered the identity of […]
It was an act of courage that could have cost her everything but 75 years on, a 92-year-old Greek woman has been reunited with Jewish siblings she hid from the Nazis during the Second World War. At an emotional reunion […]
Italy is to become the first country in the world in which the study of climate change will be made compulsory in schools, the education minister announced on Tuesday. Under a new law, all state schools will dedicate around an […]
More than 11,000 scientists around the world have declared a climate emergency, warning of "untold suffering" without urgent action. The declaration is based on analysis of more than 40 years of publicly available data covering a range of measures from […]
A Nasa probe has sent back its first data from beyond the solar system after an incredible 42-year journey. Voyager 2 blasted off in 1977 and left the heliosphere, the so-called "solar bubble" that envelops Earth and our neighbouring planets, […]
Mali’s president has warned the very existence of his country is at risk after an attack by Islamic State militants killed at least 49 soldiers. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has declared three days of mourning after the attack last Friday […]
Cambodia has deployed troops along its borders and staged live fire drills ahead of the return this weekend of exiled leaders of a banned opposition party – a move the country’s leader has denounced as an attempted coup. Sam Rainsy, the […]
Venezuela is being kept afloat by hundreds of millions of dollars shipped from Russia, reports suggest, as it struggles to survive crippling US sanctions. A total of $315 million (£245 million) in dollar and euro notes were sent in six […]