International

(BBC) -- Human rights groups have criticised police in the Philippines for the alleged use of a 'torture wheel' at a detention facility. Police reportedly spun the wheel to select abuse for detainees. Punishments included "bat position",…

(BBC) -- South Africa's main opposition party has announced anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele will be its presidential candidate this year. Ms Ramphele, the companion of late black consciousness leader Steve Biko, only formed her…

(BBC) -- US President Barack Obama will bypass a fractured Congress to act on income inequality as he delivers his annual State of the Union address later. The White House said Mr Obama would unveil an executive order to raise the minimum…

(CNN) -- Exactly three years after a high-profile jailbreak in Egypt, former President Mohamed Morsy arrived at a Cairo court Tuesday to face charges related to the escape, state media reported. Nineteen Muslim Brotherhood members,…

(CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic refused to testify Tuesday at the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in the Netherlands and denounced the U.N.-backed court as "satanic." Both men are on trial at the…

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Lawmakers in Kiev voted Tuesday to repeal sweeping anti-protest laws whose passage this month angered demonstrators and helped plunge Ukraine into political crisis. The vote came only hours after Prime Minister…

(CNN) -- With the world's eyes on her after a media frenzy over her former partner's alleged affair, France's former first lady, Valerie Trierweiler, said Monday she was doing fine and told people not to worry about her. The former partner…

(CNN) -- The Western Australian government killed its first shark over the weekend as part of a controversial culling program that has drawn an angry reaction from conservationists and activists. A spokesman for the Western Australia (WA)…

New Delhi (CNN) -- A 20-year-old woman in India has alleged that she was gang-raped by a group of men this week after the head of a village ordered them to do so, police in West Bengal said on Thursday. The incident allegedly took place…

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- A Thai court ruled Friday that elections scheduled for next month in the Asian nation could be postponed, a decision likely to please anti-government demonstrators who've taken to the streets of Bangkok. The…

(CNN) -- A fire swept through an apartment complex for the elderly in the small Quebec town of L'Isle-Verte early Thursday, killing at least five and leaving roughly 30 others unaccounted for, police said. Frigid temperatures have made…

(CNN) -- In his final moments, 8-year-old Tyler Doohan managed to rescue six people -- including two younger children -- from a burning mobile home in upstate New York, authorities said. A last-ditch effort, however, to save his disabled…

(CNN) -- Imagine the following scenario. A woman and her husband underwent infertility treatment in the early 1990s. Now they learn their daughter, contrary to what they thought, is not the man's biological child. Instead, her biological…

(CNN) -- Pop star Justin Bieber was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and drag racing Thursday morning, a Miami Beach, Florida, police spokesman said. Bieber was driving a yellow Lamborghini that police saw drag racing a…

(BBC) -- At least three people have died and 30 more are reported missing after a fire tore through an old people's home in Quebec, according to media reports. The fire at the 52-unit residence in L'Isle-Verte, 140 miles (225km) east of…