Reading Time: 1 minuteColombia has passed a controversial law which aims to compensate an estimated four million victims of the countrys long-running armed conflict.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe UN says May was the deadliest month for civilians in Afghanistan since 2007, when the organisation started recording civilian casualties.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA cloud of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile is continuing to cause travel chaos in parts of Argentina and Uruguay.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCroatia has been given the go-ahead to become a member of the European Union, and is likely to join in 2013, the European...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGreek police said they have arrested six people on suspicion of using an underground tunnel to search for buried gold at an...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA worried member of the public has forced Leicester City Council to admit it is unprepared for a zombie invasion.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSudans military has bombed a village in an oil-rich southern region, southern officials say, as tensions increase ahead of the souths independence next...
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Russian colonel who was jailed for murdering a Chechen teenager has been shot dead in central Moscow.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVietnam has said it will hold live-fire exercises in the South China Sea amid escalating tensions with China over disputed waters.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew data released in Germany strongly suggests that locally produced bean sprouts were, as suspected, the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak.