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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMoldova remains the only European country where the hammer and sickle emblem has not been definitively deposited in the history museum. Moldovan Communists...
Reading Time: 2 minutesPakistans Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has ordered an inquiry into the killing - on camera - of a young man by paramilitaries.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe UN nuclear watchdog is to report Syria to the Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteChina has denied claims by the UN that some 300 monks from a Tibetan monastery may have been illegally detained over the...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA cloud of ash spewed from a volcano range in Chile has grounded flights at airports in Argentina and Uruguay.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFarmers have suffered major losses amid fears about the safety of eating fresh produce
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA passenger plane has been forced into an emergency landing at Auckland airport in New Zealand, after flames spewed from one of...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLibyan rebels have sustained casualties during an attempt to break out of their western enclave of Misrata.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAyman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaedas number two, has warned that Osama Bin Laden will continue to terrify the US from beyond the grave.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe head of Chinas General Staff of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) has confirmed that Chinas first aircraft carrier is under construction.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMoscow and Berlin converge in asking Chisinau to give up the 2005 law on Transnistria conflict-resolution principles, renounce the unitary character of the...