India Gang Rape Victim Was Attacked Twice

A young woman was kidnapped and raped by two gangs in India - a year after a fatal rape shook the nation. Police have arrested 10 people and charged six of them with raping the 21-year-old victim in southern India. Officer Monika Bharadwaj said the...

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Boko Haram Leader Vows To Continue Violence

An Islamic extremist leader in Nigeria has said violent insurgency will continue in the country because Allah has said Muslims must decapitate and mutilate. In a video released on Saturday, Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for a December 20 attack...

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India: Trapped Passengers Killed In Train Fire

A fire has engulfed two coaches on an express train in southern India, leaving at least 23 people dead. Many of those who died became trapped and suffocated inside the carriages after the doors failed to open, officials said. As the fire and thick...

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Sandy Hook Shooting Documents Released

A police report into the Sandy Hook school massacre has revealed harrowing new details about the murders and the gunman's family life. The paperwork, much of which is blacked out, includes several videos and hundreds of photographs from inside Sandy...

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Antarctic Ship Rescue Blocked By Wall Of Ice

A Chinese icebreaker forced to abandon its attempt to rescue a stranded vessel off Antarctica is waiting for reinforcements. The Snow Dragon came within seven miles of the Academic Shokalskiy - a ship carrying 74 people, including scientists and some...

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Thailand Protests: Gunman Shoots One Dead

A gunman has opened fire at opposition protesters in Bangkok, killing one person and wounding several others. The shooting follows weeks of anti-government protests in Thailand as demonstrators seek to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The...

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Phoenix Plane Alert Over Mystery White Powder

A suspicious white powder found on board a passenger plane sparked an alert at a Phoenix airport. Hazardous materials experts were sent to investigate after the substance was discovered in a bin by cleaners. They found it after the US Airways plane...

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Good Samaritan Dog Guards Dead Pal In Web Hit

Pictures of a dog faithfully watching over his canine companion who had been killed by a car in China have become a hit on the internet. The sandy-coloured 'Good Samaritan' pooch stayed by his friend's side, despite his pal's body lying in the middle...

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Tenerife: Two Britons Injured In Explosion

Two British people were among four injured after an explosion in a hotel pool bar on the island of Tenerife. A woman suffered serious burns to her face and scalp in the blast in Adeje, on the south-west coast of the island, on Friday evening. Her eight-year-old...

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New York 'Superheroes' Fighting Street Crime

By Hannah Thomas-Peter, New York Correspondent On New York's mean streets there is a secretive group of men and women fighting crime, poverty and generally lending a helping hand. They are part of a loose coalition of people called The Real Life...

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Russia's Khodorkovsky 'Glad' To Be Free

A Russian oil tycoon has denied that he had admitted guilt in his request for a presidential pardon after being released from a prison camp. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was once the richest man in the country, was freed within an hour of the Kremlin publishing...

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Duck Dynasty Row: Fans Demand Boycott

Millions of fans and a few national leaders have spoken out against the suspension of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson. Robertson, 67, was taken off the hit A&E reality TV series for comments quoted in GQ magazine in which he called homosexuality...

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Obama: NSA Spying Sweeps May Be Reviewed

President Barack Obama has suggested that surveillance methods used by US intelligence services may be reviewed following further spying revelations. According to documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, Britain and America monitored EU...

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Billionaire Feared Dead In Helicopter Crash

A Chinese billionaire and his young son are among four people feared dead after the helicopter from which they were viewing his newly-purchased French chateau crashed into a river. Lam Kok, the 46-year-old head of the Hong Kong-based Brilliant group,...

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China's Rover Sends Back Lunar Panorama Image

China has released a panoramic picture of its Jade Rabbit rover's landing area on the moon, one week after the country's first probe landed without a hitch. The moon buggy, nicknamed "Jade Rabbit", rolled onto the surface from an unmanned spacecraft....

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Morsi Faces Trial Over Egypt Prison Break

Egypt's ex-president Mohamed Morsi will stand trial for a prison break during the 2011 uprising against dictator Hosni Mubarak. The deposed former leader and 132 others, including members of the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hizbollah, face...

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Syria: British Doctor's Body Released To Family

By Joe Tidy, Sky News Reporter The body of the British doctor who died in custody in Syria has been returned to his family. Dr Abbas Khan's family received the body at the British Embassy in neighbouring Lebanon. It comes a day after the 32-year-old...

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South Sudan: Gunfire Hits US Military Aircraft

At least one US military aircraft has been fired at during an evacuation mission in South Sudan, leaving four personnel injured. One individual is said to be in a critical condition. The US military confirmed four people had been wounded when the aircraft...

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Lockerbie 25th Anniversary: Victims Remembered

Relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have gathered in the Scottish town for a special memorial service to mark the 25th anniversary of the atrocity. Pan Am flight 103 was on its way from London to New York when it exploded above Lockerbie,...

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Australia: Pair Clinging To Ice Box Rescued

Two fishermen who clung to an ice box in the ocean for 15 hours after their boat sank have been saved - in a rescue caught on video. The "exhausted" men were winched to safety one by one into a helicopter and then taken to hospital for treatment. The...

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Iran Claims 'MI6 Spy' On Trial After Capture

Iran says it has arrested a "spy" accused of working for the British secret intelligence service. A court official said the man had confessed to his alleged crimes and was on trial. He was detained in the town of Kerman in southeast Iran after authorities...

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Banana Trade In Costa Rica Hit By Bug Plagues

Authorities in Costa Rica have declared a "national emergency" as a double plague of insects threatens banana exports from the Central American nation. An outbreak of mealybugs and scale insects has quickly infected swathes of banana plantations across...

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Egypt Sees First Snow Storm In Years

A winter storm has brought snow to Cairo for the first time in decades and has blanketed parts of the Middle East. Bad weather closed two of the country's Mediterranean ports and two ports on the Red Sea as "several" in inches fell in the Sinai Desert...

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Shooting At Denver School Near Columbine

A gunman has killed himself after opening fire at a Denver high school near to the site of the Columbine High School massacre. One 15-year-old student was injured at the Arapahoe High School in Centennial and is in a critical condition, according to...

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Geminid Meteor Shower: Treat For Stargazers

Dozens of shooting stars have been burning up in the Earth's atmosphere in the annual Geminid meteor shower. Stargazers say the display - which peaked overnight - is one of the best this year and will continue until Monday. Some people on Twitter reported...

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Space Monkey: Iran Claims Second Success

Iran claims a second monkey it has sent into space has survived - nearly a year after questions were asked over an earlier attempt. State TV said the monkey had travelled in a rocket dubbed Pajohesh, or Research in Farsi, which was the country's first...

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Mandela Funeral: Tutu 'Heartbroken At Snub'

Desmond Tutu is said to be "heartbroken" after he was apparently left off the guest list for the funeral of his close friend Nelson Mandela. The 82-year-old retired archbishop said he received "no indication" he had been invited to the burial service....

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Obama Marks Newtown Shooting Anniversary

President Barack Obama has marked the anniversary of the Newtown school shootings by calling for tighter gun control and expanded mental health care. His comments come a year after the massacre in which 20 children and six school workers were murdered...

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Mandela Funeral: Mourners Angry At Procession

Tribal Traditions At Mandela Burial Updated: 11:05am UK, Saturday 14 December 2013 By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Qunu He is Qunu's most famous son and the return of Nelson Mandela's body to his ancestral homeland is not just for...

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China's Moon Rover 'Jade Rabbit' Lands Safely

An unmanned spacecraft carrying China's first lunar rover called "Jade Rabbit' has safely landed on the surface of the Moon, according to state television. It is the first "soft landing" of a probe there for 37 years and China is only the third country...

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Paul Walker: Vin Diesel's Tribute To 'Brother'

Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel has spoken on Facebook about a touching visit to Paul Walker's mother following the death of the 40-year-old actor. Diesel revealed how he flew back to California when he heard Walker had died in the crash and "went...

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Train Engineer 'Out Of Service' After Crash

The engineer driving the speeding commuter train that derailed in New York City last weekend, killing four people, has been suspended without pay, a railroad spokesman has said. William Rockefeller is "out of service, and not being paid", the spokesman...

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Dylan's Electric Guitar Sets Auction Record

The guitar that Bob Dylan plugged in when he famously went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold at auction on Friday for a record $965,000 (£590,000). Christie's auction house did not immediately identify the absentee buyer of the sunburst...

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Merrill Newman: North Korea Frees War Veteran

North Korea has released an American war veteran detained for more than a month for "hostile acts" against the country. Merrill Newman, 85, was freed because he had apologised for his crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical condition,...

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World Cup 2014: England's Opponents Revealed

England have been drawn to play against Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The draw means England's first game, against Italy on June 14, will kick off at 2am UK time in the city of Manaus, in the Amazon region. They...

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