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'The Hunger Games' stage show to debut in 2016
The blockbuster post-apocalyptic action franchise “The Hunger Games” is hitting the stage and will open London in the summer of 2016 in a new...
Woman jailed in Iran over volleyball match declares second hunger strike
A British-Iranian woman who was detained in Iran after trying to watch a volleyball match is on a second hunger strike, her brother said.
Pirates hijack gunboat in Niger Delta, kidnap workers
Pirates in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta hijacked a police gunboat, killed three officers and kidnapped at least nine local oil workers, the military...
'Ginger jihadist' from Australia features in second IS video
An Australian teenage runaway, dubbed the Ginger Jihadist by the media, has been featured in a second Islamic State (IS) propaganda video.
Four more detained in Moscow after death of Total oil company boss
Russian officials investigating the plane crash that killed the Total oil company boss and three others have detained four more members of staff at Moscow’s...
Nazi WW II U-boat and ship it sank found off U.S. coast
Lodged beneath sand and silt, scientists have uncovered two vessels off the coast of North Carolina that provide new insight into the events of World War...
Renée Zellweger ‘glad’ about talk of her appearance
Renée Zellweger knows that the Internet was abuzz over her appearance on Tuesday.
Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie killed as jet and snow plough collide
Christophe de Margerie, the charismatic CEO of Total who dedicated his career to the multinational oil company, was killed at a Moscow airport when his...
Nigeria declared Ebola free after 42 days without a fresh case
Nigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Putin’s tiger ventures across Chinese border and ‘raids henhouse’
A rare Siberian tiger, released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a remote part of the Amur region in May, has strayed across the border...
Cold Burger King onion rings yielded a taser, knife and lawsuit
A New Mexico man is suing Burger King after he says a manager attacked him for complaining about cold onion rings.
Cat-astrophe: Tiger released by Putin in danger after defecting to China
A rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin has strayed into China and may be in danger, Chinese media said on Thursday.
French actor drinks up to 14 bottles of wine a day, never gets drunk
That’s beaucoup de vin! Gerard Depardieu revealed in an interview with French magazine So Film that he can drink up to 14 bottles of wine—a day!...
German court bans Uber ridesharing taxi service app
A court has issued an injunction barring ridesharing service Uber from operating in Germany, the latest shot in the company’s fight with taxi drivers.
The 12.9-inch iPad could come true early next year
Apple Inc is preparing to roll out a larger, 12.9-inch version of its iPad for 2015, with production set to begin in the first quarter of next year, Bloomberg...
Burger King faces U.S. backlash over switching its tax base to Canada
Burger King’s decision to move its tax base from the U.S. to Canada has resulted in boycott threats from angry U.S.
Niger detains agriculture minister over suspected child trafficking
Niger’s agriculture minister has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a baby-trafficking network, a spokesman for his political party said...
Report: German intelligence ‘spied on John Kerry, Turkey’
German intelligence listened in on at least one telephone conversation of Secretary of State John Kerry and has spied on NATO ally Turkey for years, Der...
Boko Haram changes tactics, abducts dozens of men, boys
Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks...
Huge 370kg tiger shark fed to the poor and homeless in Texas
In Corpus Christi, more than 90 poor and homeless Texans have dined on seafood: a 370kg (810lb) tiger shark no less.
Facebook receives a message from reviewers: We hate your new app
Facebook’s new app might just be one big error message. The social media giant announced in July that it would split the private messaging option off...
Helpless husband looks on as tiger carries away woman in eastern India
A woman in West Bengal was snatched by a tiger and dragged into a forest as her helpless husband looked on.
Pilots of Air Algerie jet asked to turn back
France said on Monday the pilots of the Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali, killing all 118 people on board, had asked to turn back.
French to repatriate Air Algérie crash victims
France is to repatriate the bodies of all 118 people, including 54 French nationals, who were aboard an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali.
France’s president vows to find site of Air Algerie plane crash that killed 116
President Francois Hollande vowed Thursday to deploy all of France’s military means in Mali, where it has hundreds of troops, to track down a missing...
Passenger plane carrying 116 ‘crashed’ after route change over West Africa
A passenger jet which vanished from radar over northern Mali in West Africa has crashed, says an Algerian aviation official.
Germany to allow ‘seriously ill’ patients to grow their own cannabis
A German court today ruled some people suffering from chronic pain should be able to cultivate their own cannabis “for therapeutic purposes.”...
Nine killed and 40 injured in multiple bus crash on Germany’s Autobahn
Nine people were killed and more than 40 injured when several buses crashed into each other on a German motorway near the eastern city of Dresden, police...
FIFA lifts Nigeria’s suspension from international football
Nigeria’s suspension from international football was lifted on Friday, world governing body FIFA said.
Enigma machine: Germany considers typewriters to thwart spying
Sometimes low tech is the answer to high-tech problems. The German government is considering the use of manual typewriters for sensitive documents as a...
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