International

A woman has taken a male colleague to court in South Africa, alleging he secretly filmed her as she expressed breast milk at her...

The Vatican treasurer and Australia’s most senior Catholic figure, Cardinal George Pell, has been charged with sex offences in Australia.The charges relate to alleged...

Lex Haris, CNN’s investigations editor, traveled to a journalism conference in Phoenix last week. In hindsight, his timing was terrible.While Haris was away, his...

Tanzania has threatened to arrest and expel activists, as well as deregister all non-governmental organisations that campaign for gay rights.Homosexuality is a criminal offence...

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has been attacked by grenades dropped from a helicopter in what President Nicolás Maduro called a “terrorist attack”.Footage on social media...

Kenya has withdrawn a proposed ban on used clothes by the East African regional bloc after threats by the United States to review trade...

President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with China over its inaction on North Korea and bilateral trade issues and is now considering possible...

The US says it has identified "potential preparations" for another chemical attack in Syria, and issued a stark warning to the Syrian government.The White...

Fifty-two migrants have been found dead in the deserts of central Niger, near Séguédine.A group of 75 set out in three vehicles but were...

Saudi Arabia says it has foiled a “terrorist action” against the Grand Mosque in Mecca – Islam’s holiest site.A suicide bomber blew himself up...

In less than a year, a camp in northern Uganda has taken in more refugees than any other in the world, and all of...

A close friend of South Korea‘s former president has been jailed for three years for corruption. Choi Soon-sil’s conviction for soliciting favours for her daughter...

A sniper in the Canadian special forces shot and killed an Islamic State (IS) fighter from a distance of 2.1 miles (3,540m) in Iraq...

All Kenyan schoolgirls are to get free sanitary pads, the government has said.It is hoped the move will improve access to education in a...

EU citizens legally resident in the UK will be entitled to the same rights as British citizens after Brexit, the UK prime minister has...

So-called Islamic State (IS) has blown up the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraqi forces say.The historic landmark was where IS leader Abu...

A call for South Africans to boycott social media for a day to protest against high data costs has ironically seen #SocialMediaBlackout trend.Musician and...

The government-backed Bana Mura militia in Congo has committed horrific crimes in ethnically-motivated attacks in the past few months, including cutting off toddlers' limbs...

Uber boss Travis Kalanick has resigned as chief executive after pressure from shareholders, according to media reports.Mr Kalanick will remain on the board of...

A Ghanaian who was arrested in April after telling his date that he was a terrorist and would blow up her University of Massachusetts...

More than 3,300 people have been killed in the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region since last October, the Catholic Church...

The French government on Sunday evening voted a record number of 233 women into parliament, after President Emmanuel Macron's decision to field a gender-balanced...

A 77-year-old nun, dressed in her habit, has gone viral after she was filmed floating into a polling station on board a hover-board.The French...

More than ten pedestrians were hit by a white van driver who veered onto a pavement near a renowned north London mosque, in what...

A US judge has declared a mistrial in the Bill Cosby sex assault case after the jury remained deadlocked for days.The seven men and...

A court in Cairo has recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the killing of Egypt's top public prosecutor.Hisham Barakat...

President Donald Trump has appeared to acknowledge he is under investigation in the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election. In a tweet,...

The estranged wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been shot dead two days before his inauguration. Lipolelo Thabane, 58, was travelling home...

A huge fire has engulfed a tower block in Latimer Road, west London, with eyewitnesses claiming people are trapped in their homes.The fire at...

Forty-eight Zambian MPs from the opposition UPND have been suspended for 30 days for boycotting President Edgar Lungu’s state of the nation address. They refused...

A man accused of posting blasphemous content to Facebook has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan.Taimoor Raza was convicted after allegedly...

Prime Minister Theresa May reappointed most of her ministers on Sunday but brought a Brexit campaigner and party rival into government to try to...

Guinean President Alpha Conde wrote to Saudi Arabia on Sunday offering to mediate in the crisis between Riyadh, its allies and the tiny nation...

The UK looks set to have a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party, with most general election results now in.It means...

The UK looks set to have a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party, with most general election results now in.It means...

Ex-FBI chief James Comey told Congress that the Trump administration's comments about him and the FBI were "lies plain and simple". Mr Comey told a...

A police dog has been fired from his job because he did not have the intimidating personality needed to carry out his job effectively. 1-year-old...

A 20-year-old US woman whose boyfriend took his own life nearly three years ago after she repeatedly urged him to suicide has gone on...

Zimbabwean police have cautioned unsuspecting men and the general public to be wary of a group of women accused of sexually assaulting men in...

Armed men launched two attacks in Iran on Wednesday morning, killing a guard at the parliament in central Tehran and wounding several people at...