Vietnam Firework Factory Explosion Kills 21

An explosion at a fireworks factory in northern Vietnam has killed at least 21 people and left dozens more injured. An army official said the blast was at a military-run facility in Phu Tho province which employs around 300 workers, mostly women. "Twenty-one...

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Malala Tells Obama: 'End The Drone Strikes'

Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yusufzai has told the US President that drone strikes in her country are "fuelling terrorism". The 16-year-old schoolgirl, who was shot in the head and neck by Taliban gunmen who attacked her school bus in Pakistan's...

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De Villota Death 'Directly Linked To Crash'

The family of Spanish test driver Maria de Villota have claimed her death on Friday was a direct result of her crash at Duxford Aerodrome in Cambridge last year. A statement issued by the family read: "Maria left us while she was sleeping, approximately...

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Russia: Arrests After Gay Rights Rally Attacked

Dozens of protesters chanting hymns and prayers have attacked a gay rights rally in St Petersburg, leading to arrests on both sides. One of the protesters (R) tries to pull a flag from an female activist Some 20 activists had gathered in the centre...

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Cyclone Phailin Batters India's East Coast

More than 440,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in two states as a huge cyclone made landfall on India's east coast. India's weather office issued a red alert, saying the "very severe cyclonic storm Phailin" was packing gusts as high as...

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Weapons Watchdog

Full List Of Nobel Peace Prize Winners Updated: 11:10am UK, Friday 11 October 2013 Here is the full list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901, when the prize was first awarded: 2013: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...

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Syria Rebels Parade Child Hostages On YouTube

Rebel forces in Syria have killed at least 190 civilians and seized dozens of child hostages, who they have paraded in a video posted on YouTube, Human Rights Watch says. Fighters burned villages, threw bodies in mass graves and kidnapped women and...

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Greenpeace Protest: Two Britons Refused Bail

By Katie Stallard, Russia Correspondent Two British men detained on piracy charges after a Greenpeace protest at an oil rig in Russia have lost their appeals for bail. Video journalist Kieron Bryan, 29, and activist Philip Ball, 42, are among 30...

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Japan Hospital Fire Kills Patients And Staff

At least ten people have been killed and eight others injured after a fire broke out at a hospital in southern Japan. The blaze is believed to have started on the ground floor of the four-storey building in the early hours of Friday morning. Police...

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Shark Attack Kills South Africa Snorkeller

A snorkeller has been killed by a shark at a world-famous surfing resort in South Africa. The man's body was recovered from Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape region after he was dragged into deep water by the shark. The National Sea Rescue Institute...

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Libya PM Zeidan Freed After Kidnap At Gunpoint

Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has appealed for calm after he was freed from a dramatic kidnap at dawn by gunmen at the Tripoli hotel where he is living. The brazen abduction seemed to be in retaliation for a raid by US special forces in the capital...

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Deputy Nuclear Chief Fired Amid Gambling Probe

The deputy commander of US nuclear forces has been fired because of a gambling investigation. US Navy Vice Admiral Tim Giardina was notified that he had been relieved of duty amid allegations that he used counterfeit chips at an Iowa casino. He will...

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Woman Denied Help Gives Birth On Hospital Lawn

A photograph of an indigenous woman in Mexico taken as she gave birth outside a clinic where she was denied help has led to the suspension of the health centre's director. Irma Lopez and her husband were turned away from the health centre by a nurse...

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Libyans 'Unsurprised' By PM's Abduction

In the wake of the kidnapping of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from the Corinthia hotel in Tripoli, a group of Libyan men amassed outside the building. Wearing casual clothes, they wielded Kalashnikovs and shouted at drivers as they assisted the hotel's...

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Obama 'Willing To Negotiate' To End Shutdown

President Obama will negotiate on broad budget issues, if Congress lifts the debt ceiling, a White House official has confirmed. Republican House of Representatives leader John Boehner will offer a six-week extension to the debt ceiling to Mr Obama...

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Egypt: Ousted President Morsi To Face Trial

The trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi on charges of inciting the murder of protesters is due to start on November 4. Morsi will stand trial with 14 other members of his Muslim Brotherhood over the killings of at least 10 protesters outside his...

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Hungarian Man Dies In China Wingsuit Jump

A Hungarian man has died while performing a 700m (2,290ft) wingsuit jump in central China. The body of Victor Kovats was discovered in the Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Hunan province on Wednesday, the day after his jump, according to state...

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Mexico: 13 Police Held In Kidnap Gang Swoop

Mexican authorities have arrested 13 federal police officers who were allegedly part of a kidnap and murder gang that operated in the resort of Acapulco. The officers were detained along with five civilians - four men and a woman - who also allegedly...

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Lampedusa Tragedy: Barroso And Letta Heckled

European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta have been barracked during a visit to Lampedusa where a boat carrying African asylum seekers caught fire and sank, killing up to 350 people. Residents of the remote...

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IMF Issues $2.3trn Warning Over QE's End

By Ed Conway, Economics Editor, In Washington Investors could be facing a potential loss of $2.3trn (£1.44trn) if the world's central banks cannot smoothly unwind the emergency measures carried out during the financial crisis, the International...

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Syria Chemical Weapons Mission Strengthened

A second team of inspectors will be deployed to help destroy Syria's poison gas stockpile, the world's chemical weapons watchdog has said. Ahmet Uzumcu, the director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, confirmed that...

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Banksy In NY: Better Out Than In On Show

By Hannah Thomas-Peter, US Correspondent UK graffiti artist Banksy has moved to New York for a month. As part of a series called Better Out Than In, he has promised to do a new piece of work every day. Eight days in, his residency has created...

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Malala's British Doctor Shuns The Spotlight

By Ian Woods, Senior News Correspondent The remarkable story of how a Birmingham children's doctor helped save the life of the world's most famous child campaigner is only now being told - and at the insistence of her patient. One year ago today,...

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Fed Reserve: Yellen Secures Obama Nomination

The male domination of the world's central banks is set to be blown away as a woman is nominated for the most powerful monetary policy position in the world. President Barack Obama will formally nominate Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen to succeed...

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