Yemen war: UN agrees to send war crime experts
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch: What happened to Saleem? The UN has agreed to send war crimes investigators to Yemen to examine alleged violations committed by all parties to country's civil war. The UN Human Rights
Ryan Zinke: US interior secretary ‘spent $12,000 on flight’
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Zinke is reported to have used costly charter flights when on government business A row over Trump administration officials' use of charter flights for business trips has deepened amid reports of Interior Secretary
Suicide ‘shepherd’ bomber kills several people near Kabul mosque
Image copyright EPA Image caption Shia Muslims had gathered for Friday prayers when the blast struck A suicide bomber has killed at least five people near a Shia mosque in Kabul ahead of the major religious commemoration of Ashura.The attacker
US ‘to pull staff from Cuba over sonic attacks’
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The US embassy in Havana The US is to pull most of its staff from its embassy in Cuba, American media report, after reports that they suffered sonic attacks. About 60% are leaving in response
Catalonia referendum: Tractors roll into Barcelona to defend vote
Image copyright AFP Image caption The lone-star flag could be seen everywhere on the columns Columns of tractors waving the lone-star flag of Catalan independence are converging on the region's towns to defend Sunday's banned referendum.Supporters cheered as a column
Trump to ‘confront North Korea threat’ on Asia tour
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Trump met South Korean President Moon Jae-in during UN meetings earlier this month US President Donald Trump will travel to five Asian countries in November to participate in regional summits, the White House has
Elon Musk: Rockets will fly people from city to city in minutes
Image copyright SpaceX Image caption Artwork: The BFR would assume the roles performed by current SpaceX vehicles People will soon be able to fly from city to city within minutes, rocket and car entrepreneur Elon Musk says.Mr Musk made the
Maëlys de Araujo: Mothers in plea to French kidnap suspect
Image copyright AFP Image caption Maëlys attended the wedding with her parents The mother of a man suspected of kidnapping a nine-year-old French girl says she will urge him to reveal whatever he knows about what happened.Christiane Lelandais was speaking
Iraq to halt international flights to Kurdistan Region
Image copyright AFP Image caption Kurdish officials said an international flight ban would amount to "collective punishment" Iraq's central government is to suspend international flights to and from the Kurdistan Region, as pressure mounts after Monday's independence referendum. Baghdad has
Tsunami drives species ‘army’ across Pacific to US coast
Image copyright John Chapman Image caption A species from Japan washed ashore in Oregon, six years after the tsunami Scientists have detected hundreds of Japanese marine species on US coasts, swept across the Pacific by the deadly 2011 tsunami. Mussels,