International

(BBC) Police in India have arrested a woman for beating her mother-in-the law after CCTV footage of the assault went viral. Sangeeta Jain was held on Tuesday in connection with the attack on 70-year-old Raj Rani Jain in Uttar Pradesh. The…

Employers can read workers' private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours, judges have ruled. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read a worker's Yahoo Messenger chats sent while…

(BBC) A Canadian helicopter pilot has died after falling 20m (65ft) into an icy crevasse near Australia's Davis base in Antarctica. David Wood, 62, fell into the crack after getting out of his helicopter during a routine fuel drop on…

(BBC) Ghana's president has strongly defended the government's decision to allow two Yemenis freed from Guantanamo Bay to live in the West African state. Opposition and church groups had condemned the decision, saying the men were a…

(BBC) US police in New York City have detained four teenagers and are seeking a fifth after a woman was gang raped at a playground. The victim's father was with the 18-year-old woman before the assault, but he was forced to flee at…

(BBC) A man suspected of arson and vandalism has sent a selfie to police because he found the photo in his arrest warrant to be unflattering. Donald "Chip" Pugh texted police a photo of himself and wrote: "Here is a better photo that one…

(BBC) Plans to move thousands of migrants into more permanent camps in northern France are expected to be given the go-ahead later on Monday. Several thousand people are staying in the camps in Calais and Dunkirk, popular spots for those…

(BBC) Teaching has resumed at the Kenyan university where 148 students died in a gun attack last April but only a few students have turned up for its reopening. Security has been tightened at Garissa University College nine months after…

(BBC) Aid lorries are heading to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya with enough food to last 40,000 people for a month, as well as medicine and blankets. Residents have been trapped there for six months by a government blockade and have…

President Barack Obama will not publicly back any presidential candidate before the Democratic Party has chosen who is to lead its battle to retain the White House in November. Mr. Obama would be "out there" campaigning after the primaries…

(Antigua Observer) Guyana – A fifty year old businessman is the country’s first victim of Swine Flu caused by the H1N1 virus. Vishnunarine Sugrim, also known as ‘Shook’, died on December 31, at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where…

(BBC) Ethiopian security forces have killed at least 140 people taking part in mass anti-government demonstrations since November, activists say, according to US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW). The protests have been sparked by fears that…

(BBC) A massive bushfire that devastated a small town is still burning out of control in Western Australia. About 95 houses in Yarloop, south of Perth, have been destroyed and three people are reported to be missing. Wind gusts of up to…

(BBC) State prosecutors in Paraguay have raided the headquarters of Conmebol, South America's football confederation, near the capital Asuncion. They said the move was part of US-led investigations into corruption at Fifa, world football's…

The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) in Haiti has welcomed the establishment of a date for the presidential run-off as a "step in the right direction", and called upon all actors to work towards…