July 27, 2016
Reagan would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr to be released
John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years. Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March…
July 27, 2016
Freddie Gray case: Last charges dropped against police
Gray, 25, died a week after sustaining a spinal injury while in the back of a police van in April 2015. Garrett Miller, William Porter and Alicia White were due to face charges including assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. The…
July 27, 2016
Japan knife attack: Suspect’s home searched by police
Police have searched the home of a man accused of carrying out Japan's worst mass killing in decades, at a care home for people with mental disabilities. Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the facility in Sagamihara west of Tokyo, stabbed 19…
July 27, 2016
US election: Trump ‘encouraged foreign hack of Clinton emails’
The Wikileaks group last week released emails from the Democratic National Committee. Russia is accused of carrying out the hack. Some 30,000 of the stolen emails are yet to be released. On Wednesday, Mr Trump urged Russia to find them. "Russia, if…
July 27, 2016
US election: Obama tells Democrats to be scared of Trump
Democrats should be "running scared" at the challenge posed by Donald Trump, President Obama has said. After launching his candidacy as an outsider last year, Mr Trump went on to overcome all rivals to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.…
July 27, 2016
Italy migrants: Nigerian killed in Fermo race attack
A man has been arrested by Italian police investigating the killing of a Nigerian immigrant which the government has condemned as a racist attack. Police say a row broke out at Fermo on Italy's west coast when racist abuse was hurled at the partner…
July 27, 2016
UK to get 2nd female PM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — Conservative lawmakers chose Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom today Thursday to fight a runoff contest for leadership of Britain's governing party. The winner will become the country's…
July 27, 2016
U.S. attorney general closes Clinton email case, says no charges
The investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private email while secretary of state is over, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday, removing a legal cloud that threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee's presidential bid.…
July 26, 2016
Obama and Clinton: a special and pragmatic relationship
In a highly significant move, a "fired up" President Obama took to the stage in North Carolina to offer his unequivocal backing to his former rival turned ally, Hillary Clinton. Pragmatic partnership has replaced the bitterness and distrust which…
July 26, 2016
Oscar Pistorius given six years for Reeva Steenkamp murder
South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. It comes after his initial five-year conviction for manslaughter was changed to murder last December on…