Riot police face heavy gunfire

US police said early on Tuesday they came under heavy gunfire and arrested 31 people during another night of racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman 10 days ago.

UK's top bosses earn '131 times more' than staff

The heads of Britain's largest companies earned 131 times as much as their average employee last year, a study said on Monday, exposing the growing pay gap between bosses and workers.

US ship finishes neutralizing Syria's worst chemical arms

A specially equipped United States ship has finished neutralizing all 600 metric tons of the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapons components surrendered to the international community this year to avert threatened airstrikes, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Crucial talks on long-term truce are extended

The chief Palestinian delegate to truce talks with Israel warned on Tuesday that Gaza violence could erupt anew unless progress is made toward a lasting deal ahead of a midnight deadline in Egyptian-brokered talks.

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Governor deploys National Guard

Missouri's governor said on Monday he would send the National Guard into the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson to restore calm after authorities forcibly dispersed a crowd protesting last week's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by police.

Ferguson riot highlights racial divide in US

In his landmark "I have a dream" speech, civil rights leader Martin Luther King voiced his strong aspiration for equal rights for black people in US society.

Trooper vows to stay 'as long as it takes' in town

The trooper put in charge of tamping swirling racial tensions in this St. Louis suburb vowed Sunday to stay "as long as it takes," after violence flared anew.

Hundreds protest LA police shooting

About 500 people protested outside Los Angeles police headquarters on Sunday over the shooting death of an unarmed black man in California as disturbances continued in Missouri over the police killing of a black teenager there last week.

Brazilian environmental activist upends presidential election race

Environmentalist Marina Silva could defeat President Dilma Rousseff if Brazil's October election goes to a second-round runoff, according to a new poll that saw the challenger entering the race in second place.

Israel destroys homes of suspects in kidnapping and murder case

Israeli troops on Monday demolished the homes of two Palestinians it suspects abducted and killed of three teenagers in the occupied West Bank in June, the Israeli army said.

Wedding of Jew, Muslim draws protesters

Israeli police on Sunday blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests at a wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted "death to the Arabs" in a sign of tensions stoked by the Gaza war.