Groups use children as weapons, putting them on front lines

The suicide attacker who detonated his explosives amid an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in Turkey, killing at least 54 people, was an Islamic State group child as young as 12 years old. The group has a history of using children as weapons, sending them to their death strapped with explosives and putting them on front lines in Iraq and Syria.

Anger, grief run high after bloodbath

"They turned our wedding into a bloodbath," said bride Besna Akdogan on Sunday as she left hospital after a suicide bombing killed at least 54 people at her wedding in Turkey.

Britain to create isolation units to counter extremism in jails

Britain will isolate Islamist extremists in special units in high security jails to limit their ability to radicalize other inmates, the government said on Monday.

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Tiny Spanish publisher clones the world's most mysterious book

It's one of the world's most mysterious books, a centuries-old manuscript written in an unknown or coded language that no one - not even the best cryptographers - has cracked.

Satellite data and machine learning used to map poverty

Researchers with Stanford University have used machine learning to extract information about poverty from satellite imagery of areas where ground-level data are unavailable.

How companies cash in on Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go has sent millions of people onto the streets in a worldwide hunt for virtual monsters - and from neighbourhood restaurants to multi-national corporations, businesses smell a profit.

Benin revives hopes of getting rail back on track

At the old train station in Benin's economic capital Cotonou, a rundown locomotive imported from France in the 1960s arduously roars to life, ready to haul 600 tonnes of goods to an inland city.

Nespresso inventor says wife and Rome cafe inspired the pod

Had Eric Favre not married an Italian woman, it's possible none of us would be drinking Nespresso.

Duterte threatens to pull out of UN

President Rodrigo Duterte threatened on Sunday to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations, as he launched another profanity-laced tirade against the organization for criticizing his bloody war on crime.

27 die as floods devastate 3 states

At least 27 people have died in rain-related incidents in the three Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand in the past two days, a senior police official said on Sunday.

Brother of 4-year-old Syrian boy in haunting photo dies of wounds

The older brother of the little Syrian boy who was pictured sitting in an ambulance dazed and covered in blood after an airstrike, died on Saturday from wounds sustained in the attack on the family's apartment, a monitoring group said.