Thirty-seven people were killed in three days in the Brazilian city of Manaus, and one hypothesis being considered is a coordinated wave of attacks involving police, an official said. Evidence has emerged over suspects in some of the killings that occurred from Friday to Monday evening inManaus, a

Several people were killed on Wednesday when two young girls apparently blew themselves up in northern Cameroon, an area often targeted by Boko Haram jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, local sources said. According to a

Birmingham: A Holy Quran manuscript has been carbon dated to close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), making it one of the oldest in the world, a British university said yesterday. The

Solomon Murimia, a “matatu” minibus driver, gestures as he calls on clients beside his minibus with a painting depicting US President Barack Obama yesterday in Nairobi. Obama will make a first presidential pilgrimage to

Burundi counted votes yesterday a day after a presidential election marred by violence and international condemnation that is expected to see incumbent Pierre Nkurunziza win a controversial third term. Results from the polls, which

A 15 year-old British boy has pleaded guilty to inciting an attack on an ANZAC day parade in Melbourne in April, prosecutors said. The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, entered

The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Sunday it has opened a probe after residents accused U.N. peacekeepers of killing two people who tried to storm its base in the

The head of a U.N. inquiry into human rights in North Korea challenged Pyongyang on Monday to back its allegation that testimony gathered by his commission in Seoul amounted to "slander" The three-member Commission of

The crimes of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai were "extremely serious", prosecutors said Monday as his bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power trial began moving into its final stages. The description is a key factor

A photo journalist in her early 20s was gang-raped in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said on Friday, evoking comparisons to a similar assault in New Delhi in December that led to nationwide