The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people. […]
Xi Jinping, China’s president, has urged more nations to sign up to the country’s vast Belt and Road infrastructure project, amid concerns that it is setting debt traps for poorer countries and bolstering Beijing’s political influence abroad. Beijing said that […]
Hundreds of people turned up for a protest vigil outside Cyprus’s presidential palace on Friday to mourn seven women and girls who police say a military officer confessed to killing and to question if authorities failed to adequately investigate when […]
A 19-year-old man armed with an assault-style rifle opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego on Saturday, killing one woman inside and wounding three others in a "hate crime" on the last day of Passover. The suspect John Earnest fled in a car and […]
A Russian-German “fake heiress” has been found guilty by a jury in New York of swindling hotels, banks, restaurants and wealthy friends out of over $200,000 (£155,000). Anna Sorokin, a 28-year-old magazine intern, managed to convince New York’s elite into […]
The father and two brothers of the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday terror attack that killed 253 people in Sri Lanka promise more destruction would follow in a chilling video just before they killed themselves on Friday. The trio had […]
The Democratic Party still has a long way to go to have any chance of wrestling back power from Donald Trump in 2020. There will be no coronation for a Democrat champion to take on Trump. Instead, the party’s nomination is […]
Police are investigating a potential “cash for babies” ring in India after claims by a former nurse that she had been acquiring newborns for childless couples for decades. An audio clip that has gone viral on social media purports to […]
A seven-year-old German boy who escaped as his father killed his mother and brother in a Tenerife cave has told of how he fled and hid in bushes after being lured in with the promise of Easter presents. A Dutch […]
He has a drink-driving conviction, is mildly dyslexic and once took his mother to watch the pornographic film Deep Throat. Meet Democratic presidential hopeful John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado. In a battle where many of the party candidates […]