WORLD

Lion Air jet misses runway and crashes into sea off the island of Bali.

Too late to save little Runa Begum, fears doctors in India.

Moscow bans American officials in response to Washington's 'Magnitsky List.'

A fragrance company has developed a new scent inspired by zombies for those who want to smell like the walking dead.

Latest missiles come after Iran's recent test-firing of Naze'at-10 and Fajr-5 rockets.

Three-year-old female Asiatic Bear undergoes brain surgery in a first-of-its-kind operation in Laos, to cure her of hydrocephalus.

Kerry to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and top officials and urge them to pull back North Korea.

Students at US Albany High School asked to pretend they live in Nazi Germany and prove their loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

Kremlin warns against naming suspects in Sergei Magnitsky’s death and draws up own list of alleged American human rights abusers.

Light-fingered thief runs behind cyclist and lifts phone from her pocket without her knowing.

Bank vice-president accused of hoodwinking investors in bogus Montenegro property scheme.

Spring storm sparks deadly tornadoes across Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri and Nebraska.

Former employee Ashley Baldwin tells court she saw foetuses moving after abortion on five occasions.

North Korea will not be accepted as nuclear power, warns Barack Obama's secretary of state.

Two bombs hit the Omar Bin Abdul-Aziz mosque in the town of Kanaan and a third device exploded in Baghdad

A Florida tour guide wrestled a python, nearly three times his size. exposed his neck for his colleague to chop its head off at the Everglades

National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington commemorates anniversary of Japanese gift to US.

Brazil beefing up security for pope as well as football world cup and Olympics.

Photo of Jewish passenger sealed in plastic bag goes viral. But was he avoiding women - or dead bodies?

Anto Prawira Bintan drugged housemate, tied her up with cables and set her on fire, court told.

Palestinian majority believes in national reconciliation between staunch rivals Hamas and Fatah.

Three Californian teenagers arrested on suspicion of sexual assault of girl, 15.

20-year-old woman allegedly sexually assaulted in west Delhi on Wednesday.

North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau of 12,000 cyber warfare experts is preparing for cyber attack on South Korea.

US spy agency says Pyongyang may have technology to mount nuclear bombs on ballistic missiles.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Seoul on Friday (April 12) just hours after a U.S. government agency said North Korea had a nuclear weapon it could mount on a missile, but the assessment was swiftly dismissed.

Pyongyang erupts with anniversary dance parties to mark ascension of Kim as sabre-rattling continues

25 international organisations write open letter to Obama reminding him of promise to close detention centre.

It's only good manners to learn the language of your adopted home country, says Cath Everett. But that's easier said than done.