Missouri Shooting: Robbery Claims Spark Unrest

Simmering Tension Amid Ferguson Robbery Claims Updated: 9:43pm UK, Friday 15 August 2014 By Greg Milam, US Correspondent What Ferguson, Missouri, did not need was another spark to re-ignite the flames of protest. The decision to name Officer...

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Russia Assures US Over 'Humanitarian Convoy'

Russia has "guaranteed" that no military personnel are on a convoy waiting at the border with Ukraine to deliver aid to the conflict-hit east of the country. Ukraine has been concerned the convoy of about 260 white trucks could be a 'Trojan horse',...

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South Koreans Flock To See Pope Francis Mass

An estimated one million people have gathered to watch Pope Francis deliver a mass in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. During the service, the Pontiff beatified 124 people who died for their beliefs during the early days of Roman Catholicism in the...

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Yazidis Return To Mountains On Rescue Mission

By Sherine Tadros, Middle East Correspondent Tens of thousands of people from the ancient Yazidi community were left stranded on top of Mount Sinjar when Islamic State militants took over their towns and villages on August 2. Among them was Azeez...

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Iraq Militants 'Kill Hundreds And Take Families'

More than 400 Yazidi men have been killed and their families abducted by militants in northern Iraq, local officials have said. A senior official at the Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdish-controlled region of the country told Sky News women and...

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West Needs To End Dithering Over Jihadists

It's bulldozed one border and has its eyes on many more. As it carves the world into an image of its own creation the Islamic State has shown the West's foreign policy leaders to be ostriches - determined not to see the obvious. Now that they have...

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Ebola Epidemic Is Like 'War Time' Says MSF

Ebola Cure 'A Long Way Off': Facts About Virus Updated: 12:08am UK, Thursday 07 August 2014 A cure for the deadly ebola virus, which has killed hundreds of people in West Africa, is "a very long way off", an expert has told Sky News. David Evans,...

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Foreign Ministers Agree To Arm Kurds In Iraq

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have agreed to arm Kurdish fighters battling Islamist militants in northern Iraq. Prior to the meeting France, Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands all said they were prepared to supply weapons to...

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Ukraine's Forces Attack Russian Armoured Convoy

Ukraine's forces say they attacked a Russian armoured convoy that crossed on to Ukrainian soil "and part of it no longer exists". Military officials in Kiev said they tracked the vehicles, including armoured personnel carriers, from the border and then...

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RAF Tornados Refuel In Ultimate Pit Stop

It is perhaps the ultimate pit stop - as we travel high up in Turkish airspace, the RAF Tornado fighter jets glide into position alongside us. They connect with the fuel lines and top up their tanks at 300mph. Two jets have latched onto the lines trailing...

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Iraq: US-UK Pull Back On Yazidi Rescue Mission

A US and UK humanitarian mission to rescue thousands of people trapped in Iraq is "far less likely" to take place after it has been revealed fewer are stranded than previously feared. US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel made the comments on Wednesday,...

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N Korea Fires Missiles As Pope Visits South

Pope Francis has called for peace in the war-divided Korean peninsular during a visit to the South - as the North fired five miissiles to coincide with his arrival. Three rockets were fired as the Pope's plane approached Seoul - and there were reports...

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Economy: Eurozone GDP Growth 'Breaks Down'

The 18 nations which use the euro recorded zero GDP growth as a bloc in the second quarter of 2014, with Germany's economy - Europe's biggest - contracting. Official GDP figures showed that weakness in France and Germany - which together make up 66%...

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Student Quizzed Over Pro-Israel Facebook Post

A Malaysian teenager is being investigated by police for "liking" a pro-Israel Facebook posting. The 17-year-old student "liked" a post that declared "I love Israel" and featured a picture of the Jewish state's flag, police said. Abdul Rahim Hanafi,...

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Heavy Shelling Heard In Rebel-Held Donetsk

Heavy shelling has pounded the centre of Ukraine's separatist-held city of Donetsk, according to witnesses. People poured out of their offices onto the stairwell of the city's main administration building after loud explosions nearby triggered an evacuation...

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Ukraine: Red Cross Urged To Reject Russia Convoy

By Sam Kiley, Foreign Affairs Editor Western diplomats have made "strong representations" to the International Committee of the Red Cross to avoid getting involved in Russia's 2,000-ton humanitarian aid convoy heading for Ukraine. According to...

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Detainee Release Marks China Policy Shift

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent A group of North Koreans defectors has been detained on the Chinese border with Laos in the latest crackdown by authorities who repatriate North Koreans found illegally in China. But in a rare and encouraging sign...

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Teen Held After Mum's Body Found In Suitcase

The half-naked body of an American tourist has been discovered in a suitcase on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali - prompting the arrest of her daughter and daughter's boyfriend. The body of Sheila von Wiese Mack was found stuffed into the blood-smeared...

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Derailed Train Carriages Plunge Into Ravine

A train carrying 200 passengers has been derailed by a landslide, causing several carriages to plunge into a ravine. One of the carriages hanging off a steep ravine. Pic: Blick.ch Pictures from the scene show at least one carriage in a ravine and...

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Journalist Killed In Gaza Missile Blast

An Italian journalist was among five people killed when an unexploded missile detonated in northern Gaza. The blast, in Beit Lahiya, happened as bomb squad officers attempted to dismantle the device on Wednesday. Simone Camilli, 35, was killed along...

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'Miracle' Panda Triplets Born In China Zoo

A zoo in China has unveiled what are believed to be the first ever surviving panda triplets. Staff at the Chimelong Safari Park in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou described the triple-birth as a miracle, given the panda's extremely low reproductive...

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