Hundreds missing after Laos dam collapses

At least 100 people are missing after a hydropower dam in Laos collapsed, local media reported on Tuesday.Officials have brought boats to help evacuate people in San Sai district of Attapeu province …

Japan classifies heatwave 'natural disaster' as death toll mounts

Japan's weather agency has declared a heatwave sweeping the country a natural disaster, with at least 65 deaths recorded in the past week.An agency spokesman warned that "unprecedented levels of heat…

North Korea begins dismantling rocket test site

North Korea appears to have begun dismantling part of a key rocket launch site in the country's north-west.Satellite images of the Sohae station seen by US-based monitoring group 38 North suggest Pyo…

At least 50 killed by wildfires in Greece

Fifty people have died and 170 have been injured in wildfires ravaging woodland and villages in the Athens region, as Greek authorities rush to evacuate residents and tourists stranded on beaches alo…

A woman has been attacked at a hotel in Manchester with witnesses reporting that her throat has been slit.She is said to have flagged down police outside the Hilton hotel on Deansgate and is now bein…

Gunmen attack government building in Iraq's Kurdish region

Gunmen entered the governorate building in Erbil, the seat of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq on Monday, and fired from windows at security forces, a deputy governor of the c…

43 suspected Islamic State militants detained by Turkey's police

Turkish police said on Monday they had detained 43 people on suspicion of being foreign members of the Islamic State militant group in a series of operations across Istanbul.Istanbul counter-terroris…

Japan to reopens its beaches hit by 2011 nuclear disaster

Japan has reopened three beaches in regions devastated by the 2011 tsunami and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster after years of reconstruction efforts, officials said Monday.Local officials in Fuk…

Three men arrested for acid attack on three-year-old boy

Three men have been arrested after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured in a suspected acid attack.The boy was "deliberately attacked" at Home Bargains in Worcester at 14:15 BST on Saturday, We…

Toronto shooting leaves 2 dead including gunman and several injured

Two people including the gunman are dead and 13 wounded in Toronto after a shooting Sunday in the busy Greektown neighborhood, adding to concern about gun violence in Canada's largest city."One femal…

Missing migrants found in Mauritanian city

Senegalese migrants feared missing in the Mauritanian desert after their boat washed ashore have been found safe and well in the country's second-largest city, a security source said Friday."Twenty w…

Knife attack in Luebeck, Germany leaves 14 wounded

Fourteen people have been wounded, some seriously, in a knife attack on a bus in the German city of Luebeck, local reports say.Police in the city, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, said a …

US woman kills her mother and grandmother

A New Jersey woman Heather Barbera has killed her mother and grandmother and leaving their lifeless bodies inside a blood-spattered, high-rise apartment while she used the women's cash and credit car…

Gunmen kill radio commentator in Philippines

A 38 year old Filipino radio commentator, Joey Llana, has been killed by gunmen as he left his home for work at dawn, on Friday.The Police Chief Superintendent Arnel Escobal said Llana was shot sever…

France president to fire bodyguard caught on video beating protester

French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to fire the bodyguard who was caught on camera hitting a May Day protester after "new facts" emerged about the alleged misdemeanor, the president's office…

11 dead as boat capsizes and sinks in Missouri lake

A tourist boat capsized and sank on Thursday during a fierce storm on a lake in Missouri, killing at least 11 people, the local sheriff said.The incident on Table Rock Lake that occurred as thunderst…

Putin attacks US critics of Helsinki summit with Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday slammed "forces" in the US who were willing to sacrifice Russian-US ties, two days after a summit with his US counterpart Donald Trump who has since faced…

Spain withdraws international arrest warrants against Puigdemont, other Catalans

Spain's Supreme Court dropped a European arrest warrant for former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday after Germany refused to extradite him to face a charge of rebellion for declaring Cata…

Thai cave boys, discharged from hospital, describe two-week ordeal

It was meant to be a fun excursion after football practice, but it turned into a life-threatening, two-week ordeal for a group of youngsters trapped in a cave with rising waters and no apparent escap…

UK Police says suspects behind former spy poisoning identified

Police are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Sergei Skripal.Officers think several Russians were involved in the attempted murder of …