International News

January 16, 2018

Supreme Court judges lash out at chief justice

New Delhi, India – Four senior judges of India’s Supreme Court have lashed out at the workings of the country’s top court, directing blame at Chief […]
January 16, 2018

France’s ‘Black Widow of the Riviera’ tried over poisonings

A woman who has been dubbed “the Black Widow of the Riviera” has gone on trial in the south of France, accused of seducing and poisoning […]
January 16, 2018

Convicted Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening pleads for mercy

A former guard at the Auschwitz death camp has submitted a request for mercy to avoid jail in Germany. In 2015 Oskar Groening, 96, was given […]
January 16, 2018

Denmark Facebook sex video: More than 1,000 young people charged

A police superintendent said the charges come as a warning to young people never to share sex videos. More than 1,000 young people have been charged […]
January 16, 2018

Sri Lanka’s president rejects move to allow women to buy alcohol

A move to grant women in Sri Lanka the same rights as men to buy alcohol legally has been overruled by President Maithripala Sirisena. He told […]
January 16, 2018

‘Staggering’ trade in fake degrees revealed

Thousands of UK nationals have bought fake degrees from a multi-million pound “diploma mill” in Pakistan, a BBC Radio 4’s File on Four programme investigation has […]
January 16, 2018

Toronto police say scissor attack on a girl’s hijab ‘did not happen’

Khawlah Noman, 11, (L) speaks to reporters with her mother at Pauline Johnson Junior Public School Canadian police say an alleged scissor attack on an 11-year-old […]
January 3, 2018

UN chief calls for restraint, urges Kabila to step down

The UN chief has called on Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to peacefully leave office in accordance with an agreement in […]