International

A man wearing a homemade pipe bomb detonated his explosive in a walkway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square on Monday,...

The two women alleged to have taken part in a lesbian marriage in Tanzania were last Friday arraigned before a court. Milembe Selemani, 35,...

Charges of indecency have been dropped against 24 women who were caught wearing trousers at a party near the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The gathering was...

At least 14 UN peacekeepers have been killed and 53 wounded in an attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN’s...

Israel says it has targeted sites in Gaza belonging to the militant group Hamas in retaliation for rocket strikes. Israel's military said it hit weapons...

Pope Francis has called on the Roman Catholic Church to alter the Lord’s Prayer because he believes the current translation suggests God is capable...

Same-sex marriage has been officially signed into law in Australia, a day after MPs overwhelmingly approved a historic bill. Australia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove signed off...

Russia's Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another term as president, in next year's election. He made the announcement in a speech to workers...

Five people have died in Guatemala after they were electrocuted while decorating a Christmas tree in a public park. The five, one woman and four...

The video shows two women hugging and kissing one another while dancing together, at what appears to be an engagement party. A number of people...

To mark the 25th anniversary of text messages, Sky News has caught up with Neil Papworth - the man who sent the very first...

US President Donald Trump will unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, senior administration officials say. But the officials said Mr Trump would not immediately move...

Reports from Yemen say ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in fighting with his former allies. Media controlled by the rebel Houthi movement quoted...

South Africa's corruption watchdog has found officials misused millions of dollars during Nelson Mandela's funeral four years ago. According to the report, 300m rand ($22m;...

Husbands who attempt "instant divorce" could be sentenced to three years in prison under draft legislation being considered in India. The traditional practice involves a...

An Egyptian lawyer has been sentenced to three years in prison for saying that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped in punishment. Nabih...

A hospital in the Indian capital Delhi has fired two doctors for mistakenly declaring a newborn dead. The doctors at the privately run Max Hospital...

Liberia is in the thick of uncertainty after its Supreme Court ruled in November that a presidential run-off vote cannot proceed until a complaint of fraud and irregularities...

The family of former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq say they do not know where is after he was deported from the United Arab...

An Australian MP has proposed to his partner during a parliamentary debate on legalising same-sex marriage. Tim Wilson's proposal to Ryan Bolger, who was sitting...

  Police in India say they have arrested a man whose smelly socks caused a dispute between him and fellow passengers on a bus. They told...

Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on "terrorism" in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos. "Don't focus...

A Bosnian Croat war criminal has died after drinking poison during an appeal hearing in The Hague. Slobodan Praljak, 72, died in hospital, with the...

Harun Ahmed is one of thousands of young Ethiopians who have attempted the journey across the Sahara to Libya - and from there to...

Why won't Meghan Markle be known as Princess Meghan when she ties the knot with Prince Harry next year? The brutal answer is that, by...

The home of the founder of Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram is to be turned into a museum, in the hope it will...

Australian police have arrested a man they allege was planning to carry out a terror attack during New Year's Eve celebrations in Melbourne. The 20-year-old...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took the world by storm on Monday when it was announced that the famous duo were engaged and plan to wed in...

Prince Harry is to marry his American actress girlfriend Meghan Markle. Harry, fifth in line to the throne, will marry Ms Markle next spring and...

Libyan authorities have launched a formal investigation into slave auctions in the country following an exclusive CNN report earlier this week, the government said...

US magazine publisher Time Inc. will be bought by rival media company Meredith Corporation for $2.8bn (£2.1bn). The deal is backed by the billionaire brothers...

A South African court has increased Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius’s jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months. Prosecutors had argued...

A local Japanese politician has been criticised by lawmakers for trying to bring her baby to a council session. Yuka Ogata said she wanted to...

A terminally ill woman in Australia has been granted her final wish to go to the beach by paramedics in Queensland. The moment which was shared...

Indians have reacted angrily after the health minister from Assam state said cancer “is divine justice” caused by “past sins of a person”. Himanta Biswa...

Members of an El Salvadorian street gang stabbed a man 100 times, beheaded him and cut out his heart in a park near Washington...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has often been heavily criticized for its maltreatment of foreign workers, and the abuses that some receive at the...

A former soldier says life as a woman in the world's fourth-largest army was so tough that most soon stopped menstruating. And rape, she...

A British camera operator has died while shooting a stunt sequence for a BBC drama in Ghana. Mark Milsome, whose credits include Saving Private Ryan...

Flash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 15 people and caused destruction in central Greece. The industrial towns of Mandra, Nea...