2014-02-12

Maverick US Republican senator Rand Paul is suing President Obama and the directors of National Intelligence, the NSA and the FBI for violating the

Beatlemania returned to the Washington Coliseum exactly 50 years to the day after the Fab Four played their first US concert at the same

After fractious French-US relations of a decade ago over the Iraq war, is this “love-in” between Hollande and Obama for real? “Well, in short

Ten organisers have been charged with negligent manslaughter and bodily harm after 21 people died and 500 were injured at the 2010 edition of

Israel’s Economy Minister and leader of the nationalist religious Jewish Home party, Naftali Bennett, led his members out of the Knesset today. Guest

A huge storm has hit the UK, with gusts of over 160 kilometres per hour adding to the chaos and misery of the ongoing flooding crisis. Our reporter

Many of us use social media to vent our disappointments, but when one 14-year-old Italian girl lamented the loss of her boyfriend on Ask.fm, she was

Chaos is a common sight on the streets of Central African Republic’s (CAR) capital Bangui. Murders, rapes and lootings, even in broad daylight, have

MEPs have rejected a demand from the European Green Party that urged EU governments to grant asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden. The move came

The French and American presidents have continued to stress their common ground as François Hollande’s state visit draws to a close. Barack Obama

More problems for bitcoin. The virtual currency is under attack from computer hackers, even as various governments consider clamping down on it

Syrian forces have been bombing the town of Yabroud near the Lebanese border, backed by a ground offensive according to some reports. Syrian

The Algerian authorities are trying to find out why a C130 Hercules military transport plane crashed near journey’s end on Tuesday, killing 77

Gunmen from Islamist sect Boko Haram killed 51 people in an attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said on Wednesday, in a region where

France’s Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian says the conflict-torn Central African Republic must not be allowed to split. He was speaking on his

Belgium is set to give terminally-ill children the right to die. The country is one of only a handful where euthanasia is legal. Now MPs are

China’s trade performance was vastly better than forecast in January. The value of total exports climbed 10.6 percent from a year earlier

South African police have clashed with ANC supporters at the start of campaigning for May’s general election. The violence erupted in central

The UN envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi will meet senior US and Russian officials on Thursday, a day earlier than planned – in a bid to give impetus to

It is roughly the size of a CD and can perform similar tests to a fully equipped laboratory. The new portable mini-lab is the brainchild of

Toyota is recalling 1.9 million of its Prius cars worldwide. That is being done to fix a programming problem in the hybrid systems, which could

What exactly goes on when the lights go out? Find out at a new exhibition at Paris' Natural History Museum. Entitled 'Nuit', the show takes

The Bank of England has hinted that UK interest rates may need to rise in just over one year from now from their current 0.5 percent and that they

The FBI has been giving more details of an alleged global mafia heroin and cocaine trafficking ring as suspects in New York were led away to

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its traverse toward enticing science destinations after climbing over a dune spanning a gap in a

Michael Schumacher has contracted a lung infection while in a medically-induced coma at Grenoble hospital in France, the German daily newspaper Bild

Competing in the Panorama category dedicated to independent and arthouse films, ‘Love Is Strange’ has opened at the Berlin Film Festival. Veteran

Widespread flooding across southern Britain is expected to spread with more bad weather predicted. Many parts of the country have been under water

Improving the business environment is Senegal’s goal. The country is already among the 10 most competitive in sub Saharan Africa. With political