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The EU urged Burundi's government to prosecute the killers of an opposition leader and prevent the violence in the central African country from worsening.

• 25 мая 2015, 11:32

A Kiev court ordered two suspected Russian soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian troops in the separatist east to be placed in pre-trial detention until July 19.

• 23 мая 2015, 11:17

A Turkish court fined a leading newspaper for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while a top model went on trial on similar charges.

• 22 мая 2015, 14:17

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban angered EU lawmakers and officials by insisting that Budapest had the right to debate closing the door to migrants.

• 20 мая 2015, 13:01

Russian authorities on Monday issued an indictment for fraud against tycoon Sergei Polonsky, less than a day after flying him in from Cambodia.

• 19 мая 2015, 11:48

Australian-born former tennis Grand Slam champion Bob Hewitt was sentenced to six years in jail in South Africa for raping and assaulting young girls he coac.

• 19 мая 2015, 10:30

The European Union denounced Sunday the death sentence handed down against Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and at least 100 others.

• 18 мая 2015, 10:54

American activist Michael Mohammed seeks contacts with the Kazakh government in order to "bring to justice" the police officer who killed a Kazakhstani citizen four years ago and a black man last month.

• 14 мая 2015, 10:16

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was sentenced to five years in prison for killing a homeless man with his SUV in a 2002 hit-and-run after a night out drinking at an upmarket bar.

• 06 мая 2015, 15:17

Two Charlie Hebdo journalists have rejected any suggestion of similarities between a deadly attack on the French satirical magazine and a failed armed assault on a Mohammed cartoon event in Texas.

• 05 мая 2015, 16:06

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted her country needed to work with American intelligence agencies, in the wake of claims Berlin helped the US spy on EU leaders and companies.

• 05 мая 2015, 15:48

Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed emotion in court for the first time, wiping his eyes.

• 05 мая 2015, 13:16

Pop star Justin Bieber laughed off media reports that he was quizzed by police in Rome over Argentina's request for him to be arrested.

• 30 апреля 2015, 13:06

National Guard troops patrolled the tense streets of Baltimore in large numbers in anticipation of a fresh large-scale protest over the death of a young African-American man in police custody.

• 30 апреля 2015, 12:29

Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a flashy dresser who smoked pot and drank alcohol before his dreams of becoming a boxing champion were crushed.

• 29 апреля 2015, 15:17

Police in Baltimore fired smoke bombs and pepper pellets at hundreds of protesters who defied a night-time curfew that took effect across the city.

• 29 апреля 2015, 15:06

A former Portuguese police officer who headed the investigation into the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann was ordered to pay 500,000 euros to her parents in a libel case.

• 29 апреля 2015, 13:21

Riot police stood guard on the smouldering streets of the US city of Baltimore after protesters incensed by the death of a young black man.

• 28 апреля 2015, 17:42

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop criticised Indonesia's "chaotic" handling of the execution of nine prisoners.

• 28 апреля 2015, 17:37

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the elderly founder and former chief of France's far-right Front National, hid 2.2 million euros in a secret account in Switzerland.

• 28 апреля 2015, 12:04