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Brazil

Forget the medals table, Grenada rules the Olympics!

Just which is the most successful Olympic nation?

Netherlands

Destroyer of Timbuktu's heritage goes on trial in the Hague

An historic trial opens in the International Criminal Court in The Hague this Monday, historic for several reasons.

South Korea

North Korea threatens nuclear strike on joint US-South Korean military exercises

North Korea has slammed the joint South Korean-American annual military exercises as provocative, and has threatened a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

Brazil

Rio says goodbye to the Greatest Party on Earth

What the wind and rain isn’t bringing down is starting to come down as workers begin to dismantle the Olympics infrastructure not needed for the upcoming…

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World News

Iraq executes 36 men for massacre of military recruits near Tikrit

Iraq has executed by hanging 36 men who were convicted over the killings of up to 1,700 military recruits at former US base Camp Speicher near Tikrit in 2014.

World News

Erdogan says Kurdish wedding suicide bomber was a "child"

At least 51 people are now known to have died when a suicide bomber attacked a Kurdish wedding in the south-eastern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

World News

Italian soprano Daniela Dessi dies suddenly

Renowned Italian soprano Daniela Dessi has died aged 59.

China

Protests return to streets of Hong Kong

Hundreds of people have taken part in a tightly-controlled demonstration in Hong Kong to protest at the government’s decision to bar six independence activists from standing in September’s legislative

World News

Zika virus spreads to Miami Beach

US health officials in Florida now say that mosquitos bearing the deadly Zika virus have spread to Miami Beach beyond their initial identified “transmission area” of…

World News

Kurdish wedding devastated by bomb attack in SE Turkey

At least 50 people have died and dozens have been injured after a bomb ripped through a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, south-eastern Turkey.

World News

Lochte apologises but insists he did not lie

Disgraced US Swimmer Ryan Lochte has made an apology to the nation on American TV after his antics at the Rio Olympics.

Yemen

Huge rally in Sanaa in support of Houthis and former Yemen President Saleh

Yemen has seen one of its biggest mass rallies since the 2011 overthrow of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Hungary

Taxify steals Uber's place on the rank in Budapest

The Hungarian capital Budapest kicked US taxi app Uber out of its city in July, when it passed a new law denying Uber internet access.

United Kingdom

London gets first 24-hour tube service

London has taken the first step towards realsing its ambition to become a truly 24-hour city by opening two tube lines for an all-night service, with plans to extend to more lines if it is a…

Afghanistan

Taliban claim another success in northern Afghanistan

The Afghan Taliban have recaptured a strategic district in the northern province of Kunduz, which they briefly overran last September before being pushed back by the Afghan…

Brazil

Bolt bows out of Olympics with final gold as Jamaica win 4X100m relay

Jamaicans in Rio, and there are lots of them, went bananas last night as Usain Bolt led their men’s 4X100 metres sprint team to victory again at the Olympics, for the third games in a row stealing the

Israel

Turkish parliament ratifies renewed Israeli relationship

The Turkish parliament has ratified a deal made earlier this year between Turkey and Israel ending their six-year long freeze in relations.

Sport

Usain Bolt feted in Jamaica and around the world as The Greatest

Jamaica and Jamaicans around the world have been saluting the genius of Usain Bolt on the Olympics track, now with eight gold medals across three Olympics and bidding for a “triple-triple” in the 4×10

USA

Trumps claims Obama "lied" about cash for Iran's US prisoners

The US State Department has admitted for the first time that a 400 million dollar cash payment made to Iran ordered by a tribunal was withheld until four US prisoners were…

USA

Trump goes gunning for Hillary in North Carolina

Donald Trump has once again skirted a fine line with his latest jab at Hillary Clinton.

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