Over two dozen people died Wednesday evening in northern Nigeria when gunmen attacked a cattle market with assault rifles and grenades. Police believe the attack was retaliation for the killing of a robber earlier in the day.
At least 13 al Qaeda militants were killed Wednesday in southern Yemen in an airstrike carried out by United States drones. Security officials say the drone strike targeted an al Qaeda training site in the province of Abyan.
A ferry accident in northeast India left at least 68 people dead and over 100 others missing, officials have confirmed. The ferry was traveling along the Brahmaputra River from Dhubri to Fakirganj in Assam state Monday evening when severe wind a ...
British authorities have taken two men into custody in connection with the murder of a teenage girl whose body was found on Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham estate in January. The unidentified suspects have not been charged.
An attack on Christian worshipers at a university campus in northern Nigeria on Sunday left more than a dozen people dead, authorities confirmed Monday. According to reports, gunmen threw homemade bombs inside a lecture hall at Bayero University ...
A British Red Cross worker kidnapped in southwest Pakistan earlier this year has been found dead. A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed 60-year-old Khalil Rasjed Dale was beheaded. His body was found Sunday in Que ...
Ukraine authorities have labeled Friday’s explosions in the city of Dnepropetrovsk a “terrorist case.” President Viktor Yanukovych said a special team will be formed to investigate the attacks, which injured over two dozen people. No group has cl ...
Less than a week away from the one year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, over a dozen members of the al Qaeda leader’s family have been deported from Pakistan. Pakistani authorities say fourteen members of the bin Laden family were taken b ...
Two explosions rocked a coffee shop in eastern Iraq Thursday, leaving several people dead. Authorities say the attack happened in a village about 40 miles away from Baghdad in Diyala province.
An American soldier died in Afghanistan this week in a shooting carried out by a man in an Afghan Army uniform. The United States military confirms the man “turned his weapon against coalition service members” near Kandahar late Wednesday. The sh ...
A busy railway station in eastern Pakistan was thrown into chaos Tuesday afternoon when a bomb exploded near passengers waiting to board a train. Police say two people died and at least 27 others were wounded in the explosion at the main Business ...
An airstrike last weekend in Yemen killed one of the country’s most wanted terrorists, Mohammed Saeed Al Umda. The Yemen Embassy in the United States announced Umda’s death Tuesday. Embassy officials said Umda, a top al Qaeda leader who trained u ...
Scientists announced Monday the discovery of the first known all-white adult killer whale. Dubbed Iceberg, the male orca was spotted off eastern Russia traveling with a pod of 12 other orcas. Iceberg is estimated to be about 16 years old. All pre ...
A Brazilian actor has passed away from brain injuries he suffered when he accidentally hung himself in an Easter passion play. According to reports, 27-year-old Tiago Klimeck was portraying Judas, the apostle who hung himself after betraying Chri ...
The NATO –led International Security Assistance Force confirmed Monday the deaths of two service members in Afghanistan. In a statement posted on their website, ISAF said the soldiers died Sunday when an improvised explosive device, commonly know ...
Authorities in southern Mexico say over three dozen people died early Friday morning in a bad accident involving a bus and a tractor trailer. The accident occurred just outside the town of Alamo in the Veracruz state. Authorities say it appears t ...
Pakistani officials confirm there are no survivors in a plane crash in Rawalpindi. The Bhoja Airline Boeing 737 was carrying at least 121 people when it went down Friday shortly before it was set to land at the Benazir Bhutto International Airpor ...
A great white shark killed a 20-year-old professional bodyboarder Thursday off the southern tip of Africa. National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon said the victim, identified in several media reports as David Lilienfeld, died after ...
South African authorities arrested seven boys Tuesday in the town of Soweto after a video of them raping a mentally ill girl went viral. An eighth suspect turned himself in to police. The video was passed among school children before one girl’s m ...
Two employees of a girls school in northeast Afghanistan have been taken into custody in connection with the suspected poisoning of 171 students and teachers earlier this week. Moelam Hussein, an administrator in Rostaq, Takhar province, confirms ...