Patient kills doctor in Berlin, commits suicide

A patient shots at a doctor in a university clinic in Steglitz before shooting himself dead.
26 July 2016

May rules out return of hard Irish border

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday promised a "practical solution" on the Irish border after Britain leaves the European Union in a bid to allay fears about a return to tough checks.
25 July 2016

Munich gunman 'planned attack for year'

The gunman who killed nine in Munich had planned his attack for a year and appeared to have bought his gun on the "dark net", German officials say.
24 July 2016

German officials urge close look at gun laws in wake of shooting

Senior German officials call for further controls on the sale of guns after Friday's deadly shooting in Munich that claimed the lives of nine people and the gunman, a deranged 18-year-old who was obsessed with mass killings.
24 July 2016

Russian balloonist sets world record

Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has landed safely in a field on a private property in West Australia after setting a world
23 July 2016

Turkey purge continues

Turkey yesterday pushed with a sweeping crackdown against suspects accused of taking part in the failed coup
23 July 2016

Munich gunman 'had link to Anders Breivik', Norway killer

The gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings and had an obvious link to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, German police say.
23 July 2016

Mustafizur Rahman’s Sussex lose to Surrey

Mustafizur Rahman’s Sussex Sharks suffer a potentially crippling blow to their NatWest T20 Blast campaign as they are comfortably defeated by Surrey at the Kia Oval by six wickets.
23 July 2016

3,000 migrants killed in Med this year: IOM

Nearly 3,000 migrants and refugees have perished in the Mediterranean Sea already this year while almost 250,000
22 July 2016

Karadzic appeals genocide sentence

Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic yesterday lodged an appeal against his 40-year jail sentence for
22 July 2016

IMF boss to stand trial

IMF chief Christine Lagarde was ordered yesterday to stand trial in France over a massive state payout to a controversial tycoon when
22 July 2016

Erdogan vows 'new blood' in army

Turkey rebuffed the European Union on Friday over the death penalty, while President Tayyip Erdogan vowed to restructure the military and give it
22 July 2016

Chicken odour prevents malaria: study

The smell from a live chicken could help protect against malaria, researchers have found.
21 July 2016

France urges Brexit talks 'as soon as possible'

French President Francois Hollande yesterday urged Britain to begin talks to leave the EU "as soon as possible" and ruled out
21 July 2016

IS 'jihadists' and psychopaths

Not all jihadists are psychopaths, and not all psychopaths turn violent.
21 July 2016

France extends emergency

French lawmakers approved a six-month extension of emergency rule yesterday after last week's truck attack on holiday crowds
20 July 2016

Kiev car bomb kills top journalist

A car bomb explosion has killed a leading Belarusian journalist and Kremlin critic, Pavel Sheremet, in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
20 July 2016

No official Brexit talks in 2016

Theresa May has said the UK will not begin official negotiations on leaving the EU this year as she held talks with Germany's Angela Merkel.
20 July 2016

Police surround 'bomb suspect'

Police backed by bomb disposal teams yesterday cordoned off part of central Brussels where they surrounded a
20 July 2016

100 jihadists a week still entering Syria

French military intelligence estimates that about 100 foreigners continue to enter Syria from Turkey each week to join
20 July 2016