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Christians increasingly under threat: Catholic observers Thousands of Christians are killed every year because of their faith and the persecution is becoming more widespread.
26 December 2013
'Thousands' killed as South Sudan slides towards civil war Thousands of South Sudanese have been killed in over a week of violence with reports of bodies piled in mass graves, the UN said Tuesday, as the Security Council agreed to nearly double its peacekeepers in the young nation threatening to slide into civil war.
25 December 2013
Zimmerman painting sells for $100,000 A painting by George Zimmerman, whose fatal 2012 shooting of a black teenager triggered an outcry across the United States, sold for just over $100,000 on eBay.
24 December 2013
Massacre, rapes, executions carried out in South Sudan: witnesses South Sudanese soldiers have carried out a string of ethnic killings, including a massacre, house-to-house killings and rapes, following an outbreak of fighting more than a week ago.
24 December 2013
Suicide attack near Libya's Benghazi kills at least seven: officials A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed vehicle into a security checkpoint outside the restive city of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Sunday, killing at least seven people, witnesses and security sources said.
22 December 2013
Nearly 1,000 killed by ex-rebels in C. Africa capital: Amnesty The Central African Republic's mostly Muslim ex-rebels killed nearly 1,000 people in the capital Bangui two weeks ago in a rampage avenging deadly Christian militia attacks, Amnesty International said in a report Thursday.
19 December 2013
Nairobi mall attackers may have escaped: NYC police The four attackers responsible for killing at least 67 people at a Kenyan shopping mall may have escaped due to lax security.
11 December 2013
One year on, Newtown voices revive pain of massacre One year after a gunman burst into a US school and slaughtered 20 small children and six adults, the voices of their trapped and terrified protectors returned Wednesday to haunt survivors.
05 December 2013
African elephant survival tops agenda at Botswana talks African ministers and experts meet next week in Botswana to chart ways to stamp out a spike in elephant killings fuelled by a growing demand for ivory in Asia.
30 November 2013
Nigeria says killed 95 Boko Haram fighters Nigeria's army said Friday it had killed 95 suspected Boko Haram fighters in raids in the country's northeast, as gunmen from the Islamist group battled security forces in a neighbouring area.
26 October 2013
Dolphin killings rise in Peru due to Asia shark fin sales Peru has dramatically increased its sales of shark fins to Asia, triggering the slaughter of about 15,000 dolphins a year used as bait.
20 October 2013
US general: 50-100 Afghan soldiers killed every week About 50 to 100 Afghan soldiers are killed in battle every week but the high casualty rate does not mean the country's forces are at the breaking point, a US general.
05 September 2013
Chemical leak in Shanghai kills 15: local government A liquid ammonia leak from a refrigeration unit at a food company in China's commercial hub of Shanghai killed 15 people on Saturday.
01 September 2013
Escaped python kills two young children in Canada An escaped python killed two children in their sleep in eastern Canada.
06 August 2013
Deadly fighting traps hundreds of families in Damascus: NGO Shelling killed at least 13 people on Sunday in the Damascus district of Qaboon, where fierce fighting between the army and rebels has trapped hundreds of families.
15 July 2013
Clashes erupt in Tripoli, bomb kills Libya army officer Fighting erupted in Tripoli when gunmen tried to free comrades seized by ex-rebels, and an army officer was assassinated in Benghazi.
27 June 2013
PNG girl beheads father after he rapes her: report A teenage girl beheaded her father with a bush knife after he raped her at their home in Papua New Guinea, a report said Monday, with community leaders protecting her, saying the man deserved to die.
17 June 2013
Clashes in Lebanon's Tripoli kill 23: security source At least 23 people have been killed since Sunday in Syria-linked clashes between Sunni and Alawite residents of the Lebanese port city of Tripoli.
24 May 2013
US formally takes responsibility for killing Awlaki The United States formally said for the first time on Wednesday that it had killed radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three other US citizens in anti-terror strikes abroad.
23 May 2013
Pakistan election candidate shot dead: police A candidate running for parliament in next week's historic Pakistani election was shot dead on Friday along with his three-year-old son after praying in a mosque in Karachi.
04 May 2013
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