Sri Lanka’s independent regulator has sacked a senior police officer for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners.

Say medics as hunger worsens in the war-torn region

It said the tsunami alert zone applied for coastal areas within a radius of 300 kilometres (186 miles) of the epicentre

He had been in a coma for nearly 20 years following a traffic accident in 2005

Reuters reporters heard gunfire from inside the city of Sweida and saw shells land in nearby villages. There were no immediate, confirmed reports of casualties.

The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court names Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp NWSA.O and its Chief Executive Robert Thomson, and two Wall Street Journal reporters as defendants

During a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, the jumbotron zoomed in on a man and a woman embracing in the stands.

Syrian interior ministry forces began deploying in Sweida yesterday under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday up to five jets were shot down during recent India-Pakistan hostilities.

China started building a mega-dam yesterday on a river running through Tibet and India, with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony, state media said.

US President Donald Trump sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for at least $10 billion Friday over publication of a bombshell article on his friendship with the infamous alleged sex trafficker of underage girls, Jeffrey Epstein.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 signed a ceasefire deal on Saturday to end fighting that has devastated the country’s mineral-rich but conflict-torn east.

Three people died Friday in an explosion at a police training facility in Los Angeles, in what one local official called an accident.

Israeli fire killed at least 104 people and wounded more than 100 in Gaza yesterday.

The attack, a kind of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), poses a serious danger to the city-state, Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam said in a speech late Friday.

Iranian authorities executed three men in the north of the country on Saturday after they were were sentenced to death for rape

Trump on returning to office on January 20 immediately began his nation's withdrawal from the UN body

The 252 men were accused -- without evidence -- of being gang members and flown to the notorious CECOT "anti-terror" jail last March.

The defamation lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, saw the 79-year-old Republican hitting back at a scandal threatening to cause serious political damage.

Israel intervened Wednesday with major strikes in the heart of the capital Damascus, including hitting the army's headquarters.