More about this topic

World News

Italy plans rebuild of quake-hit towns

Drone footage of Amatrice shows how easily the buildings crumbled when an earthquake rocked central Italy on August 24th killing 294 people.

01/09/2016

Portugal

Portugal braces itself for diplomatic row with Iraq over brutal attack

Portugal’s government is considering asking Iraq to remove its diplomatic immunity from the sons of its ambassador after they allegedly attacked a 15-year-old…

22/08/2016

Brazil

Rio police say US swimmers made up robbery claim

Four US swimmers who said they were robbed at gunpoint made up the story police say to cover up a vandalism incident.

18/08/2016

World News

FGM provokes fierce debate in Dagestan

A report about female genital mutilation (FGM) has sparked a fierce debate in the North Caucasus. Some clerics in Dagestan have defended the practice.

18/08/2016

United Kingdom

How could extremist Anjem Choudhary speak to the media so freely?

Extremist Islamic cleric StateAnjem Choudary has been convicted of exhorting people to support so-called Islamic State, but why was he given a platform by parts of Britain's media for years?

18/08/2016

Germany

Refugees did not bring terrorism to Germany - Merkel

The German Chancellor says Islam is and will be part of German culture as long as it is practised in a way that respects the country's constitution.

18/08/2016

USA

Cannibal attack stuns Florida

"Legal high" drug Flakka is under the spotlight after police find a 19-year-old student chewing the face of a stabbing victim.

17/08/2016

Mexico

Gunmen abduct suspected drug cartel members from top Mexico tourist resort

In Mexico, around a dozen suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel have been kidnapped in the tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta.

16/08/2016

South Africa

Oscar Pistorius taken to hospital for 'wrist injuries'

Prison officials say the former track star denied he tried to commit suicide by cutting his wrists.

07/08/2016

Markets

Rogue UBS trader Kweku Adoboli warns his crimes 'could happen again'

Former rogue UBS trader Kweku Adoboli warns banks are still pressuring employees to make profits "no matter what" and his crimes could be repeated.

01/08/2016

Brazil

Australians' Rio mishaps: and now, robbery

The Australians sure will remember their stay at the Olympic Village in Rio.

01/08/2016

World News

Australian PM resists calls to broaden inquiry into youth detention centre abuses

Australia is reeling after footage was aired on TV showing guards tear-gassing teenage inmates of a detention centre and strapping a half-naked, hooded boy to a chair.

27/07/2016

Sport

Man attempts to steal Olympic torch continuing the troubled build-up to Rio Olympics

Problems continue to mar the build-up to the Rio Olympics.

25/07/2016

Italy

[Video] Naples jewel thieves use underground tunnel network to rob high-end boutiques

20/07/2016

Romania

Nearly 40 held in Romania slavery probe as new evidence emerges

Authorities in Romania have formally detained 38 people suspected of running a slavery ring.

14/07/2016

Romania

Romanian police break up "slavery" gang rescuing dozens of youngsters

Anti-mafia police have broken up a human trafficking gang in central Romania.

14/07/2016

Mexico

Classmate of Mexico's missing students was tortured according to Human Rights Commission

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission has released new findings in the case of 43 students who disappeared two years ago.

12/07/2016

Germany

Man jailed by German court for stabbing mayor of Cologne

A German court has sentenced a man to 14 years in jail for stabbing the mayor of Cologne the day before Henriette Reker was elected.

02/07/2016

USA

Four children stabbed to death in Memphis, Tennessee

Four children under six have been stabbed to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

02/07/2016

USA

Man arrested for "wanting to shoot Donald Trump"

A man arrested at a Donald Trump rally at the weekend for allegedly trying to grab a policeman’s gun said he wanted to shoot the candidate.

21/06/2016