Eleven people were killed and dozens more injured as an explosion rocked the Saint Petersburg metro on Monday, in what Russian authorities described as an "act of terror". Authorities shut down the metro system in Russia's second city for several hours as security services said they had also defused a bomb at a second metro station.
Around 10 people were feared dead and dozens injured yesterday after an explosion rocked the metro system in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg, according to authorities, who were not ruling out a terror attack.
Devastating mudslides in the Colombian town of Mocoa killed at least 254 people, 43 of them children, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Sunday, in yet another sharp rise in the death toll.
A massive clean-up was in full swing on Monday as floodwaters receded across parts of Australia devastated by a cyclone, with residents and business owners returning to thick mud, piles of debris and ruined property.
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and top aide to President Donald Trump, is in Iraq on an official visit, a senior administration official said on Sunday.
South Korea, Japan and the US held a joint naval exercise on Monday aimed at countering missile threats from North Korean submarines, Seoul's defense ministry said.
South Korea's ousted president Park Geun-hye arrived at a detention centre near Seoul early on Friday after being arrested over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down.
The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday to cut the number of troops in its peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will push his NATO allies to boost defence spending, at their first talks on Friday, by warning them that the disproportionate US share is "unsustainable", officials said.
The European Union is set to reveal on Friday its negotiating plan for Brexit, two days after British Prime Minister Theresa May launched the two-year countdown to divorce.
First daughter Ivanka Trump is about to take on another title as an unpaid adviser to her father President Donald Trump, the White House announced on Wednesday.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Wednesday he is working on "a new relationship" with the
Torrential rain hampered relief efforts on Thursday after a powerful cyclone wreaked havoc in northeast Australia, with floods sparking emergency rescues as fed-up tourists wait to be evacuated from resort islands.
Arab leaders are set to meet in Jordan on Wednesday for their annual summit with no expected breakthrough on resolving conflicts or "terrorism" in the region.
President Donald Trump declared the end of a "war on coal" on Tuesday, as he moved to curb rules that underpin American emissions targets and a major global climate accord.
Two foreign UN contractors who were kidnapped in DR Congo have been found dead, one of them decapitated, the government said on Tuesday, as spiralling violence in the vast country sparked international condemnation.
Britain formally launches the process for leaving the European Union on Wednesday, a historic step that has divided the country and thrown into question the future of the European project.
