Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by deliberately causing the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.About 1.9 million...

Donald Trump has picked vaccine sceptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as his health secretary, as the president-elect continues to build his new administration.Kennedy, commonly...

Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say.A study conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa involved towing seal-shaped...

ReutersPolling follows a largely peaceful and low-key campaignVotes are being counted in Sri Lanka after snap parliamentary elections, barely seven weeks after a new president was sworn in.More than...

South African Football Association (Safa) president Danny Jordaan has been released on bail amid allegations he used the organisation’s funds for personal gain.The country’s organised crime investigation unit, Hawks,...

A brief yearly silence has once again enveloped South Korea, as half a million students across the country sit for the most important test of their lives.Planes were grounded,...

French military technology is being used in Sudan's brutal civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo, rights organisation Amnesty International has said.It says the Rapid Support Forces...

A man who tried to attack Brazil's Supreme Court in the capital Brasilia on Wednesday evening is believed to have been killed by his own explosives.He was found dead...

EPAA residential building near Baalchmay was destroyed by one of the Israeli strikesAt least 28 people were killed on Tuesday in Israeli air strikes on two houses in central...

Authorities in Green Lake, Wisconsin, say that a local man who went missing while kayaking this summer may have staged his own death and fled to Europe.“We believe that...

Several airlines have cancelled flights to and from Bali due to dangerous ash clouds from a volcano near the Indonesian holiday island.Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia advised passengers of...

India's Supreme Court has said that authorities cannot demolish homes merely because a person has been accused of a crime and has laid down strict guidelines for any such...