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USA

US court finds Pakistan man guilty of Manchester bomb plot

Twenty-eight-year old Abid Naseer from Pakistan has been found guilty by a US court of taking part in an al Qaeda plot to attack targets in Europe

05/03/2015

France

Rare works of art stolen from Fontainebleau Castle museum

Priceless works of art including a replica crown of the King of Siam have been stolen from a museum near Paris. Fifteen items were snatched in just

02/03/2015

Japan

Japan: Was brutal murder of boy, 13, inspired by ISIL?

Three teenage boys have been arrested in Japan after the brutal murder of a thirteen-year-old. Ryota Uemura’s naked body was found slashed and beaten

28/02/2015

Mexico

Mexico's most-wanted drug lord 'La Tuta' is arrested

Authorities in Mexico say they have captured the country’s most wanted drug lord. The arrest on Friday of Servando “La Tuta” Gomez, is much-needed

28/02/2015

World News

A quite unique Festival

27/02/2015

Canada

Mystery tunnel in Toronto contained poppy and crucifix, police say

25/02/2015

Russia

Russia: Prominent anti-Kremlin activist Alexei Navalny jailed

Navalny is jailed for 15 days for handing out flyers for an unauthorised, anti-Kremlin protest.

20/02/2015

Slovakia

Exclusive: Charlie Hebdo attacks may have used weapons legally purchased in the EU

18/02/2015

World News

France remains on high alert after Jewish cemetery desecrated

French police have arrested five teenagers after more than 200 tombs were damaged in a Jewish cemetery near the northeastern city of Strasbourg. In

16/02/2015

Argentina

Argentina president Cristina Fernandez faces cover-up probe

The president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez is to be questioned over accusations that she tried to cover up Iran’s alleged involvement in a 1994

13/02/2015

Bulgaria

Bulgaria 'failing to probe racist attacks' on asylum seekers

10/02/2015

Mexico

Dozens of bodies found in Mexican abandoned funeral home

Police in Mexico have opened an investigation after dozens of rotting bodies were found in an abandoned crematorium near Acapulco. The grim discovery

06/02/2015

Netherlands

Gunman interrupts Dutch broadcast to demand airtime before being arrested

A man armed with a pistol has entered the studies of the Dutch national broadcaster NOS and demanded to allowed on air. He was confronted by armed

29/01/2015

World News

Dangerous to ignore morality - Human Rights Watch warning

The slaughter of civilians, notably in Syria, and a ‘weak international response’ are among the key notes in the latest annual review of more than 90

29/01/2015

World News

Sydney cafe siege inquest hears that one hostage was killed by a police bullet

The inquest into last month’s Sydney cafe siege has opened in Australia On day one the court heard that hostage Katrina Dawson (38) was killed by

29/01/2015

Mexico

Mexico says 43 missing students were definitely murdered

Mexico says it is now sure that 43 students who disappeared in September were murdered on the orders of a drug cartel which mistook them for members

28/01/2015

Italy

Italian police uncover new haul of looted ancient artefacts

More 2.5 million euros worth of ancient artefacts have been recovered in Italy. The 1,500 items are said to have been stolen from sites in the

24/01/2015

Cinema

'Shadows': 8 episodes of edgy, black comedy

‘Shadows’ (‘Umbre’), a new, eight-part black comedy series tells the story of a taxi driver who doubles as a debt collector for the local Romanian

19/01/2015

USA

FBI foil 'lone wolf' plot to attack US Capitol

America’s FBI has foiled an alleged Islamist militant inspired plot to attack the US Capitol in Washington. A man from Ohio has been arrested after

15/01/2015

Turkey

Turkey arrests two police officers over murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink

Two police officers have been arrested in Istanbul and charged with negligence in connection with the 2007 murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink

13/01/2015