One of three ex-Minneapolis policemen present at the death of George Floyd will testify in his own defence in a federal civil case against him and his colleagues. The charge...

Britain has started withdrawing staff from its embassy in Ukraine, amid growing fears of a Russian invasion. Officials say there have been no specific threats to British diplomats, but about...

Pakistan's first female Supreme Court judge has been sworn in in the capital Islamabad. Ayesha Malik, 55, now sits on a bench with 16 other male colleagues in the Muslim-majority...

The military in Burkina Faso says it has seized power and overthrown President Roch Kaboré. The announcement was made on state television by an army officer, who cited the deteriorating...

A lone gunman has killed one person and seriously injured three others inside a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in the south-west of Germany, before shooting himself dead. He was...

Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake. Another 32 were injured in the accident in the south-east of the...

Sweden's prime minister has come under fire after a cleaner was detained for working illegally at her home. The police arrived at Magdalena Andersson's house after the burglar alarm was...

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has described deadly violence last week as an attempted coup d'etat. He told leaders of a military alliance of ex-Soviet states the action had been co-ordinated...

West African leaders have imposed sanctions on Mali after the country’s military government announced a long delay to the elections originally planned for February. The West African regional bloc, Ecowas,...

Although the disease process of the highly contagious Omicron variant was thought to be milder, an infection with this strain did not necessarily make one immune to the next variant that came...