North American summit: leaders to discuss Mexico’s drug war
US President Barack Obama hosted the leaders of Mexico and Canada at the White House on Monday for a North American summit, against a backdrop of the vicious drug war…
Oakland shooting: gunman on the run as police confirm ‘multiple victims’ wounded
An unidentified gunman opened fire at a private Christian college in Oakland on Monday leaving 'multiple victims' wounded, police have said. Local television reports showed students being evacuated from Oikos University…
Man on Wire aerialist Philippe Petit plans Grand Central Station traverse at 62
Philippe Petit – the French aerialist who once traversed a tightrope between New York's Twin Towers – is preparing a high wire walk above the city's Grand Central Station at…
Myanmar prepares to vote with Suu Kyi poised for win
Myanmar was making final preparations Saturday for polls seen as a test of the military-dominated regime's reforms, in which opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is standing for the first…
China cracks down after Internet coup rumours
China has shut down websites, made a string of arrests and punished two popular microblogs after rumours of a coup linked to a major political drama that led to the…
A British minister said the government's handling of a threatened fuel strike had gone "reasonably well", despite a national panic over supplies that ended with a woman suffering petrol burns.Communities…
Spanish government pushes budget despite mass protests
Hours after facing down a general strike that saw protesters clash with police, Spain's right-leaning government is to unveil massive cuts in what may be the toughest budget of the…
Trayvon Martin’s mother accuses police of smearing his reputation
The mother of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a neighbourhood watch captain, has accused police of smearing her son's reputation. Sybrina Fulton suggested officers had leaked…
Air strikes on South as Sudan quits summit
Sudanese warplanes on Tuesday launched air raids on oil-rich areas of South Sudan, a Southern official said, threatening a recent rapprochement despite UN chief Ban Ki-moon's call for calm.Earlier, Sudan…
Iraqi mother ‘beaten to death’ in the US
An Iraqi woman brutally beaten in her southern California home in an apparently racially-motivated attack has reportedly died in hospital. Shaima Alawadi, 32 and a mother of five, died after she…