WORLD

Mayor of Nagasaki urges Tokyo administration to ink agreement denouncing nuclear weapons.

Derek Medina shot wife of three years after heated argument in which she told him she would leave him.

Kenyan government admits firefighters were poorly equipped as Nairobi international airport restarts operation.

US State Department warns Americans in Pakistan of threat posed by foreign and indigenous terrorist groups.

Yemen on high alert against terrorism after message between al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula was intercepted.

Sicilian Cosa Nostra man of honour who lived in Uxbridge, an unremarkable London suburb, appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court

NewYorker.com article claimed Amazon founder bought newspaper by accidentally clicking on site.

Hacktivist group brought worldwide attention to case of girl who died after photo of alleged rape circulated in school.

Another bomb in Afghanistan kills 14 members of same family.

Ho Van Thanh took infant son Ho Van Lang into jungle after Vietnam war bomb killed wife and two sons.

Bodies of young victims of rape, torture and beatings buried in secret by sadistic school staff.

Marcelo Pesseghini is believed to have been obsessed with the infamous Amityville murders of 1974 in which a man killed his whole family.

British police apprehended a leading Italian mobster member of Sicilian Cosa Nostra

Women with long hair in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo are being targeted by criminals keen to cash in on the demand for human hair extensions.

Syrian information minister says reports of president hit by mortar shelling on way to Malik mosque untrue.

Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Fitr as they marked the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Lee Choon Hong had been performing for workers on orders of Kim Jong-un when 'slip of the tongue' happened.

Archaeologists have unearthed a Mayan frieze in Guatemala in what has been described as the “most spectacular” frieze of the Mesoamerican Civilization ever discovered in the region.

Motorcycle bomb kills 11 victims, mainly children and teenagers.

Researchers publish a comprehensive portrait of the world's first immortal cell line, found in cervical cancer sufferer Henrietta Lacks in 1951.

Former IMF chief faces aggravated pimping charges at trial due to start in Lille in 2014.

Barack Obama pulls out of plans to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Britain says Spain agrees to reduce border checks but Madrid maintains controls are legal

Roberto Benigni director of Life is Beautiful claims Berlusconi's party bribed people to join rally in his support.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 62 rebels killed in Damascus suburb of Adra

Former head of Jerusalem's Yeshivat Hakotel convicted on two counts of sexually assaulting minor.

Xinhua and Global Times publish snaps from lethal Injection porn movie purportedly showing execution of American female convict

Four month-old baby and boy abducted from their home and raped by intruder in Ceres.

The Emirati woman, a banker, and her teen-aged boyfriend were caught kissing in a car parked behind a mosque.