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'Straight Outta Compton' outguns box office rivals
"Straight Outta Compton" outgunned rivals for the top of the North American box office, defending the top spot for a second straight week after a bravura debut.
24 August 2015
Trump sees Clinton, Biden as 'pretty equal' 2016 challengers
Vice President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton would make equally formidable opponents in the race for the White House, Donald Trump said.
24 August 2015
Britain, Iran reopen embassies in wake of nuclear deal
Britain's foreign secretary reopened his country's embassy in Tehran in a long-awaited step signalling better relations four years after a mob stormed the compound, forcing its closure.
24 August 2015
North, South Korea hold top-level talks to defuse military tensions
North and South Korea sat down to urgent top-level talks, seeking some way out of an escalating crisis that has pushed both their militaries to the brink of an armed conflict.
22 August 2015
Police quiz gunman over French train attack
French investigators were interrogating a man who was overpowered by three young Americans after he opened fire with a Kalashnikov on a trainbetween Amsterdam and Paris.
22 August 2015
Russian PM visits disputed Kuril islands, triggering Japan protest
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev landed Saturday in the Kuril islands, prompting a swift rebuke from Tokyo, which claims sovereignty over the northwest Pacific archipelago in a long-running dispute.
22 August 2015
Obama declares wildfire emergency in Washington state
President Barack Obama declared an emergency for wildfire-ravaged Washington state, as Australia and New Zealand sent firefighters to help US crews.
22 August 2015
Remembering New Orleans chaos, 10 years after Katrina
Hurricane Katrina's deadly winds tore up roofs, yanked trees from the ground, and pushed towering walls of seawater miles past the coast.
22 August 2015
Greece rebels form new party ahead of snap polls
Rebels from Greece's Syriza party on Friday formed a breakaway parliamentary group after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned.
22 August 2015
Hurricane Danny strengthens to category 3 storm
Hurricane Danny strengthened into a major category 3 storm as it churned in the central Atlantic but forecasters expect it to weaken.
22 August 2015
Ban Ki-moon to mark jihadist attack on UN in Nigeria
UN chief Ban Ki-moon begins a visit to Nigeria at the weekend to commemorate a deadly attack on the global body by Boko Haram militants and meet the country's new leader.
22 August 2015
Ashley Madison sued over membership data leak
A Can$760 million (US$578 million) class action lawsuit has been launched against the owner of affair-seeking website Ashley Madison.
22 August 2015
Macedonia allows 'vulnerable' migrants to cross border
Macedonia said it would allow a limited number of "vulnerable" migrants to enter the country after sealing its border with Greece to them, leaving thousands of refugees stuck in no-man's land.
22 August 2015
Turkey to hold snap polls on Nov 1: Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he would call snap elections likely to be held on November 1, after coalition talks failed in an unprecedented political impasse.
22 August 2015
SCAT eyes 20 Russian Sukhoi Super Jet-100s
Kazakhstani SCAT is to contract 20 Russian Sukhoi Super Jet-100 (SSJ-100) aircraft.
21 August 2015
Making sense of Kazakhstan's decision to float tenge
Kazakhstan tenge plunged to its record low after the country floated it, renouncing the set corridor and adopting inflation targeting.
21 August 2015
Threat of default in Kazakhstan assessed by analysts
Kazakhstani experts comment on Bank of American Merrill Lynch placing the Central Asian country among ten countries most vulnerable to a sovereign default.
21 August 2015
Brazil speaker, former president charged in Petrobras corruption
Brazilian prosecutors lodged corruption charges against the speaker of the lower house -- a key figure in the country's current political crisis -- and also against a former president.
21 August 2015
Golovkin-Lemieux press conference
WBA Super, IBO and WBC Interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and IBF champion David Lemieux have conducted a press conference in Montreal, Canada
21 August 2015
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