China Landslide Leaves Dozens Dead

A landslide sweeping through a village in the snow-dusted mountains of southern China has killed 46 people, including many children. The last three bodies were pulled out of the debris on Saturday morning, after a night of rescue efforts by more than...

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Mali: French Air Strikes Drive Back Militants

Mali's army has driven back Islamist rebels from a strategic central town after France intervened with air strikes to stop militants controlling the country's desert north from advancing. One French pilot has been killed in the military action and hundreds...

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Somalia Hostage Raid: French Agent 'Killed'

France has said one of its soldiers and an intelligence agent have been killed in a failed hostage rescue attempt in Somalia. The agent, who is code-named Denis Allex and was captured by militants in 2009, died in the fighting with Islamists overnight,...

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Man Gets Life For Burning Woman Alive In Lift

A handyman who burned a 73-year-old woman to death in a Brooklyn lift has been sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison. Prosecutors said Jerome Isaac, 48, was sentenced for killing Deloris Gillespie inside her Brooklyn apartment building in December...

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Costa Concordia To Be Removed By September

The stricken ship Costa Concordia will be removed from the Italian coast between June and September - later than originally planned, officials have said. The vessel has been resting on its side off the Tuscan coast since it capsized last year killing...

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Batman Cinema Shootings Suspect To Face Trial

A judge has ordered that the man suspected of killing 12 people in a cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado, should stand trial. Judge William Sylvester found that prosecutors had established there was "probable cause" to believe James Holmes committed...

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Japan Unveils Huge Economic Stimulus Package

Japan Increases Defence Spending Updated: 10:54am UK, Friday 11 January 2013 By Mark Stone, China Correspondent Japan has announced plans to increase its defence budget for the first time in a decade as tensions with China continue to increase....

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Burma Spitfires: UK Team Searches For Planes

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent A British search team is continuing the hunt for a fleet of long-lost World War Two Spitfire planes in Burma. Photos taken by the group show one of three search sites - an area within the perimeter fence of Yangon...

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Richard Landers: Missing Boy Found 19 Years On

A boy who vanished from his home town almost 20 years ago has been found alive and living under an assumed name 700 miles away. Richard Wayne Landers was five years old when he was abducted in 1994 by his paternal grandparents from the town of Wolcottville,...

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Dreamliner Safety And Design Review Ordered

America's aviation watchdog has ordered a comprehensive review of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner after a spate of incidents involving the new aircraft model. The head of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said he is confident the Boeing 787 is safe, but...

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Saudi Arabia Beheads Young Sri Lankan Maid

A young Sri Lankan housemaid has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia for killing a baby who was in her care. Rizana Nafeek had denied strangling the four-month-old baby in 2005 and the execution came despite global appeals to call it off because she was only...

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India Gang Rape: Men 'Beaten For Confessions'

A lawyer for three of the men charged with murdering and gang-raping a student in Delhi has accused the police of brutality. Speaking before a hearing at the city's Saket District Court, ML Sharma claimed the men had been beaten while in custody....

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India: New Gang Rape And Murder 'Covered Up'

The family of a woman who was gang raped and murdered in Noida, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, claim the police tried to cover up the attack because one of the alleged culprits was wealthy. The semi-naked and bruised body of the 22-year-old woman...

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Syria: Another Missile Fired, Says Nato

A short-range ballistic missile has been fired again inside Syria, following similar launches last week, a Nato official has said. "We detected the launch of an unguided, short-range ballistic missile inside Syria yesterday (Wednesday). This follows...

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Japan Luck Race Won By Student

A student has beaten more than 4,500 runners in an annual dawn race around the Nishinomiya shrine in central Japan. Japanese mythology says that the winner of the 230-metre race will be blessed with a year of good luck. And if that was not reward enough,...

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Violent Crime Linked To Levels Of Lead In Air

An increase in violent crime in the 1970s and 80s is down to lead in the environment, research has claimed. A study in the US which compared the level of crime and the earlier amount of lead in the atmosphere – from petrol, paint and other sources –...

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Bobcat In Garage Mauling Had Rabies

The bobcat that attacked a man and his nephew in their garage had rabies, officials in Massachusetts have confirmed. "The bobcat has been proven to be rabid," announced Stephen Comtois, Brookfield town board chairman. He warned local people to be "on...

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Kashmir: Pakistan Troops 'Behead' Indian Soldier

One of the two Indian soldiers killed in a clash along the disputed Kashmir border was beheaded by Pakistani troops who then carried away his head, India's chief military spokesman has claimed. "We can confirm that one of the Indian soldiers was beheaded...

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Australia Wildfires: Family Clings To Jetty

A terrified family clung to a jetty for more than two hours while wildfires raged around them. As the flames destroyed her Tasmania home, grandmother Tammy Holmes was forced to tread water with her five young grandchildren in the sea. Photographs taken...

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New York Ferry Crash: Up To 50 Injured

A commuter ferry has crashed into the dockside in Lower Manhattan in New York, injuring between 30 and 50 people. The Seastreak Ferry, which provides daily services from Atlantic Highlands in New Jersey struck Pier 11 in the East River not far from...

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Afghanistan: Green On Blue Attacks Rising

The central role of the foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan is to train the national army and police to a level so they can maintain order in the country and counter the threat of the Taliban when Nato withdraws by the end of 2014. Given the scale...

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British Soldier Shot Dead In Afghanistan

Green On Blue Attacks Worsening Updated: 12:19pm UK, Tuesday 08 January 2013 By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent The central role of the foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan is to train the national army and police to a level so they can maintain...

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Ivory Poachers Kill Elephant Family In Kenya

A family of 11 elephants has been killed by poachers in Kenya in what officials describe as the biggest single mass shooting of the animals on record in the country. A gang of about 10 attackers hacked off the elephants' tusks in Tsavo East National...

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Australian Bushfires: 'Catastrophic' Conditions

The Australian state of New South Wales is experiencing one of the highest-risk fire days in its history, with temperatures climbing above 40C. Firefighters are battling over 100 wildfires raging across the southeast of the country, with more than 20...

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India Gang Rape: Two Men To Plead Not Guilty

Two of the men accused of gang-raping and killing a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in Delhi will plead not guilty to all charges, their lawyer has said. Mukesh Singh and Akshay Thakur are among five suspects charged with abduction, rape and...

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Costa Concordia: 'Stupid' Tourists Rescued

By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter Coastguards have criticised five German cruise ship passengers who hired an inflatable boat to get a close-up look at the wrecked Costa Concordia liner. The group, including two children, had to be rescued after...

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Shanghai Market Fire Kills Six People

Six people have been killed after a fire tore through a wholesale market in Shanghai. The blaze broke out at around 8.30pm on Sunday, but firefighters were unable to control it for several hours. Rescuers are still searching for casualties inside the...

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China Journalists On Strike Over Censorship

By Mark Stone, China Correspondent in Beijing More than 100 journalists at one of China's most respected newspapers have gone on strike in a rare protest against censorship. The strike has won huge support on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter...

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India Gang Rape: Five Appear In Delhi Court

An Indian court hearing the case of five men accused of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old student was cleared as chaotic scenes forced the hearing to be held behind closed doors. The suspects were being presented for the first time since the attack...

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Teen Held Over US School Explosion Threats

A 17-year-old student has been accused of planning to use homemade explosives to attack his school. Derek Shrout, who attends Russell County High School in Seale, eastern Alabama, was due to appear in court in Russell County on assault charges. The...

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iPhone Thief Caught In Dating Sting

A New York musician who had his iPhone stolen on New Year's Eve created a fake dating profile and arranged a romantic rendezvous with the thief. Trombonist Nadav Nirenberg, 27, accidentally left his phone in the back of a taxi while on his way to a...

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Bashar al Assad's Speech Changes Nothing

He has been seen but barely heard since June last year, but in a highly choreographed speech to an audience of the faithful, Bashar al Assad addressed the nation from an opera house in Damascus. The raucous crowd regularly interrupted the president's...

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Australia Bushfires: Fears For The Missing

Several people are feared dead and hundreds more have been left homeless as bushfires continue to burn in southern Australia. Specialist rescue teams are moving from home to home searching for the missing in the island state of Tasmania. Thousands...

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Syrian President Assad Gives Live TV Address

Syria's president has blamed Islamic extremists and "outside forces" for orchestrating the conflict in his country in a rare public address to the nation. The embattled leader, who appeared before cheering crowds at an opera house in the capital Damascus,...

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Gerard Depardieu Receives Russian Passport

The French actor Gerard Depardieu has received his passport after being granted Russian citizenship, saying he was leaving France to avoid proposed tax increases. "There was a short meeting and Depardieu was handed his passport," Putin's spokesman Dmitry...

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