Air strike kills top jihadist rebel commander in Syria
An air strike near Syria\'s battleground second city Aleppo killed the military leader of the largest rebel alliance and at least one ...Obama warns China over South China Sea ruling
US President Barack Obama warned Beijing Thursday it could not ignore a tribunal\'s ruling rejecting its sweeping claims to the South China ...38 dead, 92,000 left homeless by Niger floods
At least 38 people have been killed and more than 92,000 left homeless since June in disastrous floods in Niger, the United ...Nepal criticized for not stopping child marriages
Traditional practices, poverty, last year\'s massive earthquake and Nepal\'s ongoing political instability mean child marriages remain a serious problem in the country, ...Frenchwoman who received first face transplant dies
The world\'s first face transplant recipient, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, died in April "after a long illness", a hospital said Tuesday.Swedish Nobel judges fired in Karolinska medical scandal
The assembly that awards the Nobel Prize for medicine will demand the resignation of two of its judges as a result of ...Taliban attack in Afghan capital Kabul kills at least 24
A Taliban suicide attack in a busy area near the defence ministry in Kabul on Monday killed at least 24 people and ...Multiple bomb blasts in Syrian cities kill at least 48
A string of bomb attacks hit across mostly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, killing several dozen people including at least 35 ...Israeli tank fire targets Hamas post in response to shooting
Israeli tank fire targeted a Hamas post on the Gaza Strip border overnight after gunfire at Israeli forces in the area, with ...Pope declares Mother Teresa a saint
Mother Teresa, the nun whose work with the dying and destitute of Kolkata made her a global icon of Christian charity, was ...
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