Has the UN failed Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims?
Image copyright AFP Image caption Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are sheltering in refugee camps in Bangladesh The UN leadership in Myanmar tried to stop the Rohingya rights issue being raised with the government, sources in the UN and aid
US health secretary apologises for private plane travel
Image copyright AFP US Health Secretary Tom Price has apologised over his private plane trips on official government business.The former Georgia congressman said he will reimburse taxpayers and fly commercial in future.His apology comes a day after US President Donald
Germany supermarket extortionist ‘poisoned baby food’
Image copyright EPA Image caption Officers are pursuing a male suspect aged about 50 who appeared in security video footage in a supermarket near Konstanz An extortionist has contaminated adult and baby food in Germany in the hope of gaining
Race slurs on US Air Force black cadets’ dorm doors
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The campus in Colorado Springs says the academy's security forces are investigating the vandalism Racial slurs have been found scrawled on dormitory doors of five black cadets at the Air Force Academy in the
Female Saudi drivers ‘will reduce crashes’
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption The ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia is to end in June next year Lifting Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers will cut the number of car crashes, Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin
Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals she has breast cancer
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Ms Louis-Dreyfus won another Emmy earlier this month Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the award-winning star of US TV comedy series Veep, has announced she has breast cancer, in a message posted on social media."1 in 8 women
‘New Baghdadi tape’ posted by Islamic State group
Image copyright AFP Islamic State militants have released what appears to be an audio recording of their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.A speaker who sounds like the IS leader seems to refer to recent North Korean threats against Japan and the
Catalonia referendum: Police block store for ballot boxes
Image copyright AFP Image caption It remains unclear how the Barcelona police will act on referendum day Barcelona police have sealed off a warehouse said to be stocking ballot boxes, as Spain seeks to obstruct a Catalan independence referendum. The
Soviet mural enjoys rare Estonian restoration
Image copyright Postimees Image caption The sailor restored, along with the Soviet ensign A group of Estonian artists has restored a mural of a sailor at an abandoned Soviet naval base, in an effort to address their country's troubled history
Rohingya crisis: Refugee boat capsizes, leaving 14 dead
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption The boat capsized a short distance from the coast near the city of Cox's Bazar At least 14 Rohingya people - all women and children - have drowned after their boat capsized off the