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Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner will learn if he is to be extradited to the US to face charges linked to a corruption scandal sweeping football's world governing body.

• 22 сентября 2015, 15:31

A South Africa parole board was meeting to determine if champion Paralympian Oscar Pistorius should leave jail, weeks after the justice minister blocked his release.

• 18 сентября 2015, 16:52

Mexico's foreign minister was to fly to Egypt with relatives of the tourists mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces as her government called for an urgent investigation of the "deplorable event".

• 15 сентября 2015, 14:37

The police investigation into the Bangkok shrine blast increasingly points towards a game-changing attack on Chinese tourists by Uighur militants or sympathisers.

• 14 сентября 2015, 14:09

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney downplayed her actor husband George's fears for her safety, after he voiced his concern on a US talk show following an attack on one of her co-counsel in the Maldives.

• 12 сентября 2015, 10:16

The lawyer for a Pakistani doctor who was jailed after helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden accused the government of deliberately delaying his appeal after the case was adjourned for the sixteenth time.

• 10 сентября 2015, 16:04

Young employees at Mexx store in Almaty secretly filmed a number of women, while they were changing in the store's dressing room.

• 08 сентября 2015, 15:43

Almost a year since the disappearance of 43 students tainted his administration's international image, the case has come back to haunt Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

• 08 сентября 2015, 14:01

Russian journalist Oleg Kashin released the names of three men charged with carrying out a savage beating that left him close to death in 2010.

• 08 сентября 2015, 12:27

Prince Ali bin al Hussein, who led a challenge against Sepp Blatter this year, hit out at FIFA leaders links to corruption ahead of his entry into the FIFA presidential race.

• 08 сентября 2015, 10:39

The court case against actor Johnny Depp's wife Amber Heard for allegedly smuggling two dogs into Australia -- dubbed the 'war on terrier'.

• 07 сентября 2015, 14:16

South Carolina prosecutors said they intend to seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, the white alleged supremacist charged with killing nine black churchgoers in June.

• 04 сентября 2015, 13:58

A global anti-corruption conference opened in Malaysia with a demand for the country's Prime Minister Najib Razak to come clean on a raging financial scandal.

• 02 сентября 2015, 16:01

President Barack Obama vowed to push for police officer safety after a Texas sheriff's deputy was gunned down from behind and shot multiple times at close range.

• 01 сентября 2015, 15:41

Vietnam said it will free more than 18,200 prisoners to mark its independence day celebrations, but political activists will be excluded from the country's second biggest-ever amnesty.

• 28 августа 2015, 16:56

The man suspected of killing two journalists as they carried out a live interview in Virginia died Wednesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

• 27 августа 2015, 13:15

The White House issued a rapid call for Congress to pass gun control laws, after two journalists were shot to death during a live television broadcast.

• 27 августа 2015, 12:31

Two years ago, trapped in what he remembers as "a dead marriage," Michael logged on to adulterous dating site Ashley Madison for the first time.

• 26 августа 2015, 13:20

Guatemala's Supreme Court gave a green light for embattled President Otto Perez to be investigated for graft in the corruption scandal rocking his government.

• 26 августа 2015, 12:32

The EU sharply criticised Russia on Tuesday for the jailing of Ukrainian filmmaker and Kremlin critic Oleg Sentsov, calling it a violation of international law.

• 26 августа 2015, 11:10