July 28, 2016
Cardinal George Pell denies child abuse claims
Australia's most senior Roman Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, has called claims that he sexually abused children "a scandalous smear campaign". Details of alleged incidents have been broadcast by the country's public broadcaster, ABC television.…
July 28, 2016
Guatemalan ex-leader Perez Molina faces new graft probe
A judge in Guatemala has ordered that former President Otto Perez Molina be investigated in connection with a multi-million dollar corruption case. Mr Perez Molina resigned on 2 September over allegations of graft. He was arrested a day later. He is…
July 28, 2016
France church attack: Second suspect in priest killing named
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean. Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services. The teenagers…
July 28, 2016
US election: We’ll carry Clinton to victory, says Obama
US President Barack Obama has implored voters to help continue his legacy by carrying Hillary Clinton to victory at the polls in November. Mr Obama praised Mrs Clinton at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, as the most qualified person ever…
July 27, 2016
Fighting flares again in South Sudan capital after U.N. demand for restraint
Fighting and gunfire erupted in South Sudan's capital today Monday, a day after the U.N. Security Council told rivals President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Mac-har to rein in their forces and end days of violence. Scores of people have been…
July 27, 2016
More protesters arrested, police say Dallas sniper plotted bigger assault
The U.S. military veteran who fatally shot five Dallas police officers last week was plotting a larger assault, authorities said, disclosing how he had taunted negotiators and written on a wall in his own blood before being killed. Protests against…
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…