Yasmin Montes knew what the loud pounding on the door of her home in Potrerillos, Honduras meant. Caught up in a relationship with a gang member, the young mother of one, suffered regular beatings

A California jury has ordered chemical giant Monsanto to pay nearly $290m for failing to warn a dying groundskeeper that its weed killer Roundup might cause cancer. Jurors on Friday unanimously found that Monsanto

Romanian police have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in the capital, Bucharest, as tens of thousands took to the streets to call on country's government to resign. Friday's rally was attended

Zimbabwe's opposition coalition has filed a legal challenge to results of the country's recent election, in a move that delays the inauguration of Emmerson Mnangagwa as president of Zimbabwe. The MDC alliance filed their paperwork with Zimbabwe's Constitutional

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - A wide variety of conspicuous acronyms greets the eye, stamped anywhere from road signs and large tent warehouses to weathered buildings and newer structures with corrugated tin roofs. These block letters

ANKARA: Amid news of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime’s current preparations for a military operation in the opposition-held northwestern province of Idlib, experts anticipate a massive influx of civilians into neighboring Turkey. There are

Venezuela has requested Interpol to arrest an opposition politician who is currently in neighbouring Colombia and accused of involvement in an apparent attack against President Nicolas Maduro. "We are seeking code red for Mr

Cameroon's government has said it will investigate a video, which according to a human rights group shows the "brutal killings" of at least a dozen unarmed people by the country's security forces. A government

More than one million Uighur Muslims are estimated to be in detention in "counter-extremism centres" in China's far-west, the vice chairperson of a United Nations anti-discrimination committee has said, citing credible reports. Gay McDougall made

Yemen is routinely called the world's worst humanitarian crisis. But sometimes an individual event can bring that phrase starkly into focus. That is what happened on Thursday, when a series of air raids in