Saudi authorities have agreed to retry a Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, her country's deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Even if the Islamic State group is one day defeated on its territory, the world could face an even greater threat from tens of thousands of battle-hardened jihadist veterans, experts have warned.
The family of a man suspected in a stabbing at an east London subway station said he had mental problems and they contacted the police in the weeks before the attack.
Russia symbolically handed over a puppy to France on Monday to replace a police dog called Diesel who was killed during a raid linked to the Nov 13 Paris attacks.
A South African judge has granted bail to Oscar Pistorius, pending sentencing for his murder conviction.
Russia's tourism chief got himself into hot water on Monday by claiming there is no need for Russians to go abroad on beach vacations, after Moscow severed air ties with Egypt and warned against travel to Turkey.
Four people were lightly injured when an improvised explosive device, apparently placed in a bag, detonated at a bus stop in central Moscow, police said on Tuesday.
As the images fade on the crumpled sheet doubling as a movie screen, 400 exuberant teenagers clap hands to the beat of the closing number of Kinshasa Kids, the award-winning movie finally come home.
James Watt or Alexander Graham Bell? The Royal Bank of Scotland is asking the public to choose a Scottish scientist or other innovator to feature on its first plastic 10 pound note.
On the pitches of ramshackle soccer academies across West Africa, teenage boys chase one another in pursuit of the ball, the chance to impress, and the prospect of a lucrative contract with one of Europe's top teams.
A leading Australian senator said Monday the country's young people are playing "Russian roulette" with illegal drugs following a spate of arrests, overdoses and two deaths at a high-profile music festival. Nick Xenophon, a member of Australia's upper house of Parliament, suggested a colonial inquest may shed some light on whether the deaths and overdoses during this year's Stereosonic tour were preventable.
As Israel prepares to push through a long-delayed landmark natural gas deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a growing backlash by protesters who accuse him of using shady backroom dealings and strong-arm tactics to push through the plan.
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