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A manhunt is under way in the Canadian city of Moncton after three officers were shot dead and two wounded. Police said they were searching for Justin Bourque, 24, who was "armed and dangerous", and…

Ugandan woman Betty Naiga: 'My family hate looking at me and my tumour'. Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a "public health emergency", say experts. Figures suggest almost 18 million…

UK political leaders have united to urge Sudan to lift the "barbaric" death sentence handed down to a Christian woman accused of abandoning Islam. A court ruled that Meriam Ibrahim, who was raised by…

There is outrage over police inaction in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where two teenage girls were gang raped and hanged from a tree. The father of one victim said he was ridiculed…

Famed author poet Maya Angelou, who died early Thursday morning at age 86 at her home in North Carolina, was commemorated on Twitter by scribes, celebrities, sports stars and politicians in a way that…

The Nigerian military say they know where the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are but they will not attempt a rescue. Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff said it was "good news for the parents," although…

(Reuters) - Hundreds gathered at a memorial service on Sunday night to mourn six young people killed two nights earlier by a gunman in a California college town. Some 200 people attended an evening…

US police have confirmed that a man who killed six people in a rampage in California was 22-year-old Elliot Rodger. The student was the son of Hollywood filmmaker Peter Rodger, who was assistant…

os Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has reportedly bowed to intense pressure from the NBA and agreed to allow his wife Shelly to negotiate a sale of the team, according to media reports. Known…

Teaching unions said they would also march in memory of the 173 teachers killed by militants. It follows two days of bloody attacks in the country, in which nearly 150 people have been killed.…

The Islamist group Boko Haram has been accused of killing 17 people in an attack on a village in north-east Nigeria, close to where hundreds of schoolgirls were seized. It comes a day after 118 people…

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung Electrontronics Co. Ltd. (KRX:005930) might be nearing an agreement that could bring an end to patent infringement cases between the tech rivals, the Korea Times…

African leaders meeting in Paris have agreed to wage "war" on Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic militants. President Hollande of France, who hosted the summit, said regional powers had pledged to share…

Google has received fresh takedown requests after a European court ruled that an individual could force it to remove "irrelevant and outdated" search results, the BBC has learned. Read More....…

Soldiers in Nigeria have opened fire on their commander in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, witnesses say. Maj-Gen Ahmed Mohammed escaped unhurt after soldiers shot at his car at the Maimalari…