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US police officers have been criticised for using mug shots of black suspects for target practice in Florida.The images used by North Miami Beach Police were discovered by a female soldier who

A PLANE carrying top aides of Philippine President Benigno Aquino overshot a runway in stormy weather on Saturday, authorities said, shortly after Pope Francis’s plane took off from the same airport. The

AFP photographer Asif Hassan was recovering in hospital Saturday after being shot while covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest outside the French consulate in Karachi. The protest by the student wing of the

AUSTRALIA and Papua New Guinea Saturday denied reports that protests at an asylum-seeker camp in the Pacific nation had turned violent, officials and reports said, as hundreds of detainees continued a hunger

THE United States joined Israel in condemning the International Criminal Court decision to opened a preliminary probe Friday into possible war crimes committed against Palestinians, blasting it as a “tragic irony”. ICC

A WOMAN working as a volunteer for Pope Francis’s mass in the Philippines was killed Saturday as stormy weather sent steel scaffolding crashing on to her, a church spokesman said. Francis cut

EUROPE is on high alert following anti-terror raids and arrests of suspected Islamist militants. More than 20 people have been arrested in Belgium, France and Germany and Belgian has joined France in

COMPANIES profiting from falling oil prices should pass on the benefits by increasing workers’ wages, Prime Minister David Cameron has suggested. He also urged employers to pay the “living wage”, which is

TWENTY-one people have been confirmed dead after a tugboat capsized on the Yangtze river in eastern China, state media report.The boat, with 25 people on board, overturned on Thursday while it was