Putin Underwear Artist Flees Russia For Paris

By Katie Stallard, Russia Correspondent A Russian artist who fled the country after his satirical paintings of Vladimir Putin were seized by police has been left homeless and desperate in Paris, according to his wife. Konstantin Altunin left Russia...

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'Piranha' Gangs Hack Women's Hair In Venezuela

Venezuelans are being warned to be on the lookout for street gangs who pounce on unsuspecting women and chop off their hair. Nicknamed the Piranhas, after the flesh-eating fish, the scissor-wielding gangs of men and women hang around shopping centres...

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Syria: Regime 'Ready To Retaliate' To Strike

Syria: US Report On Gas Attack Updated: 8:13pm UK, Friday 30 August 2013 The US released its assessment of the Syrian government's alleged involvement in the August 21 chemical weapons attack in Damascus. Here is the text. The United States Government...

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Delhi Gang Rape: Teenager Found Guilty

A teenager has been found guilty of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi last year. The verdict is the first handed down in a case which shocked the world in its brutality and led to widespread protests over sex crimes...

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Syria: Napalm-Like Burns After School Attack

People suffering from Napalm-like burns have been speaking of an attack in which a plane apparently dropped an incendiary bomb on students in Syria. Video said to be from the town of Urum al Kubra, close to Aleppo, shows a man reported to be a school...

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Seamus Heaney: Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Dies

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and playwright, has died. Born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children, in Co Derry, Northern Ireland, Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. The 74-year-old former teacher moved to Dublin...

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Papua New Guinea: 'Black Jesus' Tari Killed

An infamous cult leader known as 'Black Jesus', who was suspected of cannibalism, has reportedly been chopped to death in a Papua New Guinea village. Steven Tari, a convicted rapist, had been on the run since escaping from a prison in the Pacific nation...

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Syria Crisis: US May Act Without Allied Support

President Barack Obama may proceed with military action against Syria even without allied support, US officials have said. But they stressed no final decision has been made on America's response to the Syrian government's alleged chemical weapons attack,...

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Panama Skull Identified As California Woman

Skeletal remains found this month in Panama have been identified as those of an American woman who disappeared there in 2011. DNA testing confirmed that the remains - a skull and some bones - found on the island province of Bocas del Toro came from...

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Syria Gas Attack: 'My Eyes Were On Fire'

Survivors have described the horrific aftermath of the "gas attack" in Syria in a series of chilling interviews from Damascus. Victims told how a gas with "a faint green colour" stung their eyes "like needles", causing their legs to buckle and making...

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Lindsay Sandiford: Death Row Appeal Rejected

Indonesia's top court has rejected an appeal by a British grandmother sentenced to death for trafficking drugs into Bali. Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death by firing squad in January. A panel of three judges at the Supreme Court in Jakarta...

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Syria: Russia 'Sending Warships To The Med'

Syria: How The World Is Reacting Updated: 12:53pm UK, Thursday 29 August 2013 There has been international condemnation of the alleged chemical attack in Syria, which apparently killed more than 1,300 people. This is how some countries are responding:...

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North Korea Sees 'Bright Future' In Tourism

North And South: A Quick History Updated: 2:23pm UK, Thursday 25 July 2013 By Mark Stone, Asia Corespondent, in Pyongyang On the Korean Peninsula there are two versions of history. The version people learn depends on whether they are North Korean...

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Baghdad Bombings: At Least 51 People Killed

At least 51 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of bombings and attacks in and around Baghdad. More than a dozen explosions - most of them car bombs, but also at least two suicide attacks - went off in mostly Shiite areas of the Iraqi...

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Syria: Father Reunited With His 'Dead' Son

A Syrian father's nightmare is over after he learned the son he thought had been killed in a chemical weapons attack is alive. Video has emerged of the moment the pair are reunited in a suburb of Zamalka, surround by friends and relatives. The heart-warming...

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Syria: 'Britain Helped Rebels Use Chemicals'

Britain, the US and France helped "terrorists" use chemical weapons in Syria, says the country's deputy foreign minister. The claims comes as David Cameron finished holding 'war talks' at Downing Street where military commanders were helping draw up...

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Gaddafi's Son Seeks UK Help Over 'Show Trial'

By Lisa Holland, Foreign Affairs Correspondent The lawyer representing Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, is urging the British Government to do all it can to prevent him facing trial in Libya and deliver him to the International Criminal Court...

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Brit Held In China For 'Selling Private Data'

A British corporate investigator has been arrested in Shanghai on suspicion of illegally buying and selling personal information about Chinese citizens. Former journalist Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yingzeng Yu are accused of obtaining people's...

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Syrian Crisis: Morality Of War And Jungle Law

Morality and law are closely related, but is there a link between morality, law, and war? The morality of dropping large quantities of high explosives on cities is debateable, but if there were no "laws of war" then, leaving morality to one side, legally...

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Syria: US Says Military Is Ready For Action

Syria: Credibility And The Jungle Updated: 11:38am UK, Tuesday 27 August 2013 By Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs Editor Morality and law are closely related, but is there a link between morality, law, and war? The morality of dropping large quantities...

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Crocodile Victim Sean Cole's Body Recovered

By Jonathan Samuels, Australia Correspondent The body of a man who was snatched by a large crocodile in the north of Australia has now been recovered. IT worker Sean Cole, 26, was taken on Saturday in front of at least 15 onlookers as he swam with...

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Mubarak Back In Court After Prison Release

Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak has appeared in court to answer charges in connection with the killing of protesters in 2011. It was the 85-year-old's first court appearance since he was released from prison last week and transferred to a military...

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Rim Fire: San Francisco Power Under Threat

Water and electricity supplies to San Francisco are under threat as hundreds of firefighters battle one of California's worst ever wildfires. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in San Francisco as the blaze, known as the Rim...

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Syria: UN Inspectors 'Shot At By Snipers'

Weapons inspectors investigating an alleged chemical attack in Damascus have been shot at by snipers, a spokesman for the UN has said. The team's lead vehicle was "deliberately shot at multiple times" as they left a government checkpoint during a visit...

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Bo Xilai Attacks 'Vile' Police Chief At Trial

By Lisa Holland, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, in Beijing Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai condemned his former police chief Wang Lijun as a "vile character" and a "liar" on the fourth day of a trial which is captivating China. Bo, the former...

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Mumbai Gang Rape: Fifth Suspect Arrested

By Neville Lazarus, Sky News Producer in Mumbai A fifth person accused of the gang rape of a 22-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai has been arrested by police. Salim Ansari was detained in Delhi, three days after the alleged attack. Police claimed...

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Drones Map Peru's Ancient Archaeological Sites

Peru has turned to drones to survey its vast wealth of archaeology sites and ancient ruins, thousands of which have yet to be mapped and excavated. The unmanned aircraft typically smaller from the ones employed in military actions or anti-terror strikes....

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Syria 'To Allow' UN Visit To Chemical Site

Syria has agreed to allow United Nations weapons inspectors to visit the site of an alleged chemical attack in Damascus, according to state TV. The agreement comes after Syria warned the US against taking military action against the regime, saying it...

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