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Social media watchers on Friday were treated to shocking and dramatic global developments courtesy of the New York Post and United Press International: World War III declared by the Pope!…
Al Qaeda has threatened France with more terror attacks after 17 people were killed at Charlie Hebdo’s offices and at a Jewish supermarket. The warning came as President Francois Hollande…
Passengers trapped on a ferry which is on fire during bad weather in the Adriatic Sea have been using mobile phones to plead for help. Some called Greek TV stations…
AirAsia flight number QZ8501, bound from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, has lost contact with air traffic control, the airline has confirmed. The missing flight is an Airbus…
More than 160,000 people have been forced to flee Malaysia’s worst flooding in decades, local media has reported. According to The New Straits Times, the number of people forced to…
Coalition forces have launched 39 airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria over the past 48 hours, according to the Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF). Unmanned drones, fighter…
Mourners have gathered in Indonesia’s Aceh province for a memorial to mark 10 years since the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Around 230,000 people died after a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia’s…
Boko Haram militants have released a video apparently showing civilians being shot as they lie face down in a hall as the group’s leader boasted the floor was “crimsoned” with…
Four Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and sent home to Afghanistan, the Pentagon has revealed. The men, who were held at the US military prison for over a decade,…
Eight children aged from 18 months to 15 years have been found stabbed to death inside a house in Manoora suburb of the city of Cairns in far north Queensland,…
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reinstated the death penalty in terrorism cases after Taliban gunmen killed 132 children and nine teachers at a school in Peshawar. Three days of…
The EU General Court has ordered that the Palestinian militant group Hamas be removed from the bloc’s terror blacklist. The move comes over four years after Hamas appealed its terror…
Taliban gunmen have killed at least 84 schoolchildren and wounded dozens more in a school attack in Peshawar, Pakistan. Six men stormed the army-run school, according to military officials, and…
Dramatic footage and images were shot of several hostages escaping the besieged Lindt Café in central Sydney. The tense stand-off between Australian police and a gunman lasted over 16 hours…