Three students at a California high school were injured when a teacher accidentally fired a gun during class.

World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.

The BBC is making an unprecedented appeal to the UN to stop Iran from harassing its Persian service staff in London and their families in Iran.

The body of a missing boy has been found in the boot of a car being driven by his father’s girlfriend.   8-year-old Gabriel Cruz’s disappearance in the southern province of Almeria in late February captured the nation’s attention.   … Continue reading →

Former Colombian president Andres Pastrana and ex-Bolivian president Jorge Quiroga say they were denied entry to Cuba this week

Argentina’s Center-Right Government has, for the first time, said it would consider holding a referendum on legalising abortion.

Aid agencies say tens of thousands of people have been displaced by ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Islamic State group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October.   It is not clear why the release of the video – via an IS outlet … Continue reading →

Authorities in San Francisco have released body camera videos of a dramatic shootout in which police officers fired their weapons at least 65 times in 15 seconds at a murder suspect.