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Last 6 doomsday cult members on death row executed by Japan

The cult group made sarin, a deadly nerve agent in the facility. TOKYO-Japan executed the remaining six death-row inmates involved in a doomsday cult that spr...

Explosion reported outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing

The roads around Beijing's United States embassy were chaotic, but reopened on Wednesday afternoon after two attempted attacks just hours earlier. The indi...

Newborn baby found dead on AirAsia plane

The flight had taken off from Imphal and had a stop in Guwahati , both cities in north-eastern India. "The baby's mother is believed to have boarded the fl...

At least 50 people killed in wildfires near Athens, Greece

One tourist who was on the shore told the BBC, "Thankfully the sea was there and we went into the sea, because the flames were chasing us all the way to the wat...

Trump, EU Chief Agree to Pursue Trade Peace Pact

Sen. Pat Toomey , R-Pa., said the Agriculture Department was "trying to put a Band-aid on a self-inflicted wound". He also pushed back at the administration's ...

House GOP members introduce articles of impeachment against Rod Rosenstein

Republicans claimed in the resolution that Rosenstein had improperly refused to hand over documents requested by Republican members of Congress investigating c...

Secret Trump-Cohen tape released, but what's on it in dispute

Davis shared the recording with CNN on Tuesday night. "What kind of a lawyer would tape a client?" Rudy Giuliani , a lawyer for Mr Trump, said in an in...

10-year-boy gets restrained after lunging at police officers

Police forcefully restrained a young black boy in a video that went viral on social media over the weekend. We are reviewing the facts around this incident and ...

Five charged over acid attack on young boy in Worcester, UK

Adam Cech, 27, Jan Dudi, 25, and Norbert Pulko, 22, appeared alongside Jabar Paktia, 41, at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court this afternoon. Initially, the fo...

Swedish activist stops deporting of Afghan asylum-seeker aboard plane

Ersson managed to single-handedly stop the deportation of a 52-year-old man to Afghanistan by buying a ticket for the flight he was on and refusing to sit dow...

Audio expert analyzes secret Trump-Cohen tape

In 2011, Manigault-Newman threatened to file a lawsuit over AMI's coverage of her brother's murder. Cohen replies, "We'll have to pay". Manigault-Newman wor...

Trump administration says it won’t recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea

They're not USA policy. He is expected to face questions about Mr Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin . She highlighted that the Paris agreement on climate ...

Drought and high temperatures result in numerous wildfires in Sweden

The natural disaster gripping Sweden comes amid a Europe-wide heatwave that has also led to blazes in the south. More than 130 firefighters, five aircraft and...

ISIS attacks kill about 100 in southwest Syria amid government offensive

Wednesday's attack is Isis's most brutal since the group's so called caliphate across Syria and Iraq was largely dismantled by Syrian government forces and a ...

Pompeo To Face Lawmakers After Trump Summits With Foreign Leaders Raise Questions

Critics accused Mr Trump of siding with Russian Federation over his own country by failing to so. He also cautions against Putin's ulterior motives in maintai...

Donald Trump's Hollywood star destroyed with pickaxe

However, about an hour later, officials say he walked up to Beverly Hills police headquarters, identified himself and said he wanted to turn himself in. The Hol...

GOP Rep. Scott Perry: 'Can't Get Into' Trump's Mind on Russian Federation

The new sanctions push also comes as Pompeo prepares to go to Capitol Hill to testify in front of the Senate Foreign Relations committee - the first member of...

Donald Trump's Hollywood star vandalized

The star was reportedly destroyed with a pick axe overnight. A man dressed as a construction worker and wielding a pickax defaced the star in October 2016 in ...

Turkey places jailed U.S. cleric under house arrest

State media say the court in the western city of Izmir decided that he should be released on health grounds. He has also been banned from leaving the country. T...

Putin's World Cup gift to Trump may have been bugged

He said the proposal had been passed on to the Russians by Trump's national security advisor John Bolton . Later, a reporter asked McConnell, "What's your vi...

Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed with pickax

However, this is the second time it has been completely destroyed. While it's unclear what the motive was for the latest attack, police reportedly had the s...

Rescuers continue search for survivors in deadly Greece wildfires

Survivor Kostas Laganos said: "It burned our backs and we dived into the water". Suddenly there was heavy smoke and very strong wind, we couldn't breathe, lucki...

Stormy Daniels' husband files for divorce in Texas, calls her a cheater

He also claims his estranged wife "committed adultery" but hasn't gone into details in the filed paperwork. A petition for divorce was filed last week, the accu...

Record heat broils Japan, prompting warnings

In the city of Ome on the west side of Tokyo , the mercury touched 105.4 degrees (40.8 degrees Celsius), its highest temperature ever recorded. Thousands mor...

White House Postpones Second Putin Summit Until After 'Russia Witch Hunt'

Looking to the 2018 midterm elections, most Americans don't think Russian Federation has abandoned efforts to influence USA politics. "I would want to make ...

Scores dead in southern Syria as ISIS unleashes devastating attacks

The head of the Sweida provincial health authority told the pro-Damascus Sham FM that 215 people were killed and 180 injured in the attack, as well as 75 Islami...

Brock Turner attorney argues ex-Stanford swimmer wanted 'outercourse,' not intercourse

Turner was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexual penetration of an uncon...

Trump administration unveils $12B aid for farmers hurt by tariffs

European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker and trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom will meet Trump, the USA president, and his treasury chief, Steven Mnuchin...

China blames "independence activists" for axing of Taiwan Olympic event

In a major victory for China's Government, the final three of 44 global airlines told to change the way they refer to the self-governing island of Taiwan have c...

Student blocks immigrant's deportation in plane protest

The incident took place on Monday, Swedish airport authorities said. "I don't want a man's life to be taken away just because you don't want to miss your flig...