2013-04-13

Two Venezuelan teenagers wearing protective headgear and gloves slug it out in a boxing ring set up outdoors in a local neighbourhood in Caracas

All is ready for the millions of Venezuelans who are likely to flock to the polls on Sunday in the first election of the post-Hugo Chavez

Outside the Cairo court anger and despair was on show from the relatives of victims of violence during the 2011 revolution when they heard the trial

US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with China’s President Xi Jinping, and the two countries have issued a joint statement saying they are

A well known thief in France has blasted his way out of prison. Redoine Faïd who has links to organised crime used explosives to blast his way out of

The British press has released details of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict. The Times reported that evidence has been discovered

Russian relations with America took another turn for the worse on Saturday when the Russian published a retaliatory list banning 18 Americans from

A strong earthquake estimated at magnitude 6.3 struck Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Saturday morning.

Thousands of people have gathered outside Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum as Queen Beatrix officially re-opened the the national museum after a decade long

A 14 metre high statue of Pope John Paul II has been unveiled on a hill above the Polish city of Czestochowa. The 7 tonne structure fibreglass

Hundreds of mourners in Serbia, many in tears, attended the funeral for 13 victims of a massacre by a lone gunman. A 60-year-old Serbian veteran went

All 108 passengers and crew survived a frightening crash in Bali after a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway and ditched in shallow water. At

Croatian voters will go to the polls on Sunday to select the country’s first-ever group of MEPs. The country of 4.4 million people joins the

The presiding judge in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has withdrawn from the case and referred it to another court. This

Mohamed Ahansal won the gruelling Marathon des Sables for a fifth time on Friday after a third-place finish in the final stage in the Moroccan

The draw for the semi-finals of the champions league took place at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday and Germany v Spain was the

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Beijing as part of his four day East Asia tour. Along with strengthening relations between the United States

Around 100 migrants were rescued from their rubber dinghy by Italian border police from the Strait of Sicily. It was the third time in a week that

A small group of activists gathered in front of South Korea’s foreign ministry building protesting against US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit

The presidential election this Sunday in Venezuela is expected to give the country either a leader who tries to fill the shoes of the late Hugo

Beijing has reported its first case of bird flu. It is the first time that the new strain of the virus has been found in a human outside of eastern

American diplomacy is moving this weekend from the South Korean capital Seoul to Beijing and Tokyo, as tension surrounding North Korea’s ongoing

The United States has published a list of 18 people it has banned from the country, 16 of whom are linked to the case of Russian whistleblower Sergei

Caracas has been calm ahead of the presidential elections in Venezuela on Sunday. With the official campaign shut down, election officials geared

The Vatican is bringing top scientists together for its second international adult stem cell conference. The organisers say they want to counter