Man 'Used Facebook To Contact Al Qaeda'

A man who used Facebook to connect with al Qaeda operatives has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge in a US court. Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen admitted that he tried to help al Qaeda by offering to provide weapons training to the terror group. The 24-year-old...

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India Gang Rape Victim Was Attacked Twice

A young woman was kidnapped and raped by two gangs in India - a year after a fatal rape shook the nation. Police have arrested 10 people and charged six of them with raping the 21-year-old victim in southern India. Officer Monika Bharadwaj said the...

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Thailand Protests: Gunman Shoots One Dead

A gunman has opened fire at opposition protesters in Bangkok, killing one person and wounding several others. The shooting follows weeks of anti-government protests in Thailand as demonstrators seek to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The...

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Acid Attacks: India Victims Demand Action

By Neville Lazarus, Sky News producer, Delhi Sapna, 20, considers herself lucky to have escaped with just a few burns on her face and upper body. She's one of the latest victims of an acid attack in India. A spurned relative threw industrial acid...

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China Condemns Japan PM's Visit To War Shrine

Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has paid an inflammatory visit to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine. China immediately condemned the move as glorification of Japan's past "militaristic aggression" and warned Tokyo must "bear the consequences"....

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Black Smoke Over Beirut After 'Explosion'

Witnesses say black smoke is rising over Beirut's hotel sector after a explosion rocked the Lebanese capital. ...

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Global Rough Diamond Trade Thrives In Antwerp

By Robert Nisbet, Europe Correspondent In four unprepossessing streets in the centre of Antwerp, a secretive, centuries-old business is conducted behind bulletproof glass where a handshake and the Yiddish word "mazel" seals the deal. The international...

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Egypt Names Muslim Brotherhood A Terror Group

Egypt's military-backed government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, criminalising all of its activities. The interim government also banned any financing of the Muslim Brotherhood and membership to it. The announcement is a dramatic...

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Israel Defends 'Racist' Bedouin Removal Policy

By Sam Kiley, Middle East Correspondent, in Umm al Hiran Israeli government officials have rushed to defend the forced removal of up to 40,000 Israeli citizens of Arab descent from their homes in the Negev to new towns amid a growing clamour of...

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Egypt: 14 Dead In Police Headquarters Explosion

At least 13 people have been killed in an explosion at a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura. The blast injured around 100 others, state media reported. Investigators are trying to find out whether the blast, which happened at around...

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South Sudan: 'Thousands Dead' In Ethnic Clashes

Mass graves have been uncovered in South Sudan amid evidence ethnic clashes have left thousands dead. Dozens of bodies were discovered at a burial site in the country's oil-rich Unity State and there were reports of two other mass graves elsewhere....

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Pope Francis Warns Of 'Anti-Christian' Violence

Pope Francis has delivered his first Christmas Eve mass and called on Catholics to open their hearts and struggle against the "spirit of darkness". As thousands flocked to the site of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, the leader of the world's Roman Catholics...

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Archbishop To Condemn Israel At Midnight Mass

By Tom Rayner, Middle East editor One of the most influential Catholic Bishops in the Middle East is expected to criticise Israel during the Christmas Eve midnight mass in Bethlehem. It is thought the Latin Patriach of Jerusalem, Archbishop Fouad...

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US Marines Poised As South Sudan Unrest Grows

The US is moving additional troops to Africa as South Sudan seems to be sliding towards civil war. South Sudan's army was poised for a major offensive against rebel forces, the president said on Monday. Expectations of an upsurge in fighting came as...

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Egypt: 14 Dead In Police Headquarters Explosion

At least 14 people have been killed in an explosion at a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura, officials have said. The powerful blast, believed to have been caused by a car bomb, injured around 100 others, state media reported. The...

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British Airways Plane 'Crash' In Johannesburg

A British Airways plane has crashed into a building at Johannesburg Airport in South Africa. The aircraft, carrying 182 passengers, sliced its wing through the building while taxiing on the runway, BA confirmed. Posting on Twitter, the airline said:...

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Paris Bar Pair Shot Dead At Point-Blank Range

A man and a woman have been shot dead in a Paris bar by a gunman who then fled the scene on foot. The two were shot at point-blank range with one bullet each, police said. They were sitting outside the Cafe Chineur in a residential area of the French...

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Pussy Riot Member Freed From Russian Prison

One of the jailed members of punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, has been freed after being granted amnesty. Ms Alyokhina, who was found guilty of hooliganism after a performance critical of President Vladimir Putin, walked free under an amnesty...

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Lockerbie 25th Anniversary: Victims Remembered

Special memorial services to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing have taken place in England, Scotland and the US. Pan Am flight 103 was on its way from London to New York when it exploded above Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, on the...

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South Sudan Conflict: Last UK Airlift Mission

The UK is to charter its third and final flight to evacuate British nationals from the troubled East African state as fighting spreads. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said the plane would be sent to the capital city of Juba on Monday afternoon...

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Colorado School Shooting: Teen Victim Dies

A Colorado student has died in hospital more than a week after she was shot by a high school classmate. Claire Esther Davis, 17, had been in a coma since she was gunned down at point-blank range at Arapahoe High School in Centennial. Friends and well-wishers...

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