Nigeria has sent additional troops and planes to search for the 110 schoolgirls believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram activists a week ago. The girls went missing after jihadists raged their school in the town of Dapchi in the north-eastern…

No less than 250 individuals have been killed in more than two days of heightening violence in eastern Ghouta, as Syrian and Russian airstrikes keep on bombarding the rebel held enclave. Rockets and artillery fire have been targeting the Damascus suburb in…

No less than 17 individuals are dead following a 19-year-old man opened fire at a secondary school grounds in Parkland, Florida, police have said. The suspect has been named as Nikolas Cruz, 19, and is a former student at the school who…

Five individuals have been killed in an explosion in a shipyard in the southern Indian province of Kerala, authorities said. The blast happened on Tuesday morning on board a vessel that was docked at the Cochin port for repairs. Police told to…

Officials in Peru have recaptured a detainee over a year after he got away by escaping prison and leaving his twin sibling in his place. Alexander Delgado had been serving a 16-year jail time for sexual abuse of a child and theft…

No less than two Russian mercenaries were killed in U.S. air strikes in north-eastern Syria a week ago, their partners have told the BBC. The hired soldiers are said to have been procured by private military firms backing Syrian pro government troops….

A stunning disclosure in London’s River Thames constrained authorities to empty the adjacent London City Airport on Sunday, after reports said an unexploded World War II-period bomb was found. The weapons was found at the George V Dock in North Woolwich amid…

A historic point investigation into wrongdoing among Australia’s banks and budgetary administrations has started. The royal commission – the nation’s best type of open request – will examine affirmed and built up offense in the part. Australia’s banks, which are among the…