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Taliban use child sex slaves to kill Afghan police
'The Taliban are sending beautiful boys to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen'
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Australia taxes foreign home buyers as affordability bites
The move comes as concerns grow that a flood of mostly Chinese investors is crowding out locals
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Spain joins forces with Bollywood to boost tourism
Spain wants to diversify its tourism base beyond the traditional northern European sunseekers
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In Israeli desert, world's highest solar tower looks to future
The Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 metres (787 feet), taller than Paris's Montparnasse Tower and London's Gherkin
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Pak-Afghan tensions: Normalcy returns to Torkham as border reopens
Only passport holders allowed from Afghan side: FO
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Hackers steal $50mn in blow to virtual currency: NYT
Money was stolen from a project called Decentralized Autonomous Organization
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Software unveiled to tackle online extremism, violence
Counter Extremism Project says software can be useful in stopping "viral" spread of videos of beheadings
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Man charged with rape after being given 'gift' of US teen
Girl's parents gave the then-14-year old to Kaplan in gratitude "for helping (the) family out of financial ruin"
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'Death to traitors', UK MP murder suspect tells court
Thomas Mair was charged with grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence
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Egypt’s ex-president Morsi sentenced to life in espionage trial
The court acquitted former president of charges of having supplied Qatar with classified documents
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Germany slams NATO 'warmongering' on Russia
NATO to deploy four battalions in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to counter Russia
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Three astronauts from International Space Station make parachute landing
The three-man crew departed the station after spending half a year in Earth's orbit
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U.N. chief urges countries to help Greece with migrant crisis
Tsipras asked for solidarity so that his country could deal with migrant crisis
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Man charged with murder of British lawmaker Jo Cox appears in court
Mair is charged with murder, causing grievous bodily harm, and possession of a firearm and another offensive weapon
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Islamic State mounts fierce defence of besieged Syrian bastion
IS carries out two suicide attacks and five car bombings in suburbs of Manbij
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'Muslims Like Us': BBC planning reality show on Muslims living together
The show will feature ten people including Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, and people who have converted to the faith
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Ramazan edict against eating in public infuriates some Muslims in Egypt
Edicts issued by Dar al-Iftaa are not legally binding but are given great importance when it comes to public conduct
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Woman saves son from being mauled by mountain lion
The boy's mother heard screams and raced outside the house where she found the cougar on top of her son
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Islamists attack Radiohead fans in Turkey
Images filmed during the altercation and widely circulating on social media show the attackers wrecking the store
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Obama, Saudi prince focus on Iraq and Syria in Washington meeting
US officials have expressed unease about the Saudi-led campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen
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China invites reporter to 'slam sledgehammer' on world's highest glass bridge
The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge requires safety check ahead of it’s opening in Hunan, China, next month
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Teenage 'Islamist' killed in Bangladesh after Hindu attack
Locals in Madaripur caught Fahim after he attacked and wounded 50-year-old mathematics lecturer Ripon Chakrabarti
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Belgian police arrest 12 suspected of planning new attacks -prosecutor
Europe is on high alert as the Euro 2016 soccer tournament is under way in neighboring France
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Religious leaders reexamine words after Orlando gay club massacre
The show of support from church leaders could mark a turning point for acceptance of the gay community
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Clinton's lead over Trump slips after Florida shooting
Clinton's lead down from 14.3 to 10.7 after the attack
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Indonesians get free fuel for reading Holy Quran during Ramazan
State-owned oil and gas company is offering motorists two liters of free fuel for reading one chapter of Holy Quran
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Bulgaria imposes niqab ban in public places
Latvia in a similar move, also plans to ban niqabs and burqas calling it a ‘preventive measure’
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'Hack the Pentagon' program reveals 138 security flaws: US
The 'Hack the Pentagon' event, the first "bug bounty" in the history of the federal government
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Police couple killer seen with aborted church attack suspect
Larossi Abballa was seen in a van with a man later suspected in the Villejuif affair
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Female students in China use nude selfies to borrow money online
Some loan sharks sell nude photos even after female students have paid back their loans
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Disney installs gator warnings, barriers after boy's death
Signs warn visitors of 'alligators and snakes in area' and also tell patrons to stay away from water
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Orlando buries its dead in wake of gay club massacre
More burials are expected over the weekend as the city struggles to recover from the shooting
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Man charged in France over plan to attack tourists: judicial source
The 22-year-old man has been charged with association with a terrorist group
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Man charged in France over plan to attack tourists
The country is still under a state of emergency following the extremist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris
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New suspect charged over Brussels attacks
The 30-year-old, named as Youssef EA, is one of several charged over the March 22 attacks
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Chicago man shot and killed while live streaming
In the Facebook Live video, Antonio Perkins, 28, inadvertently captured his own murder
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Afghanistan declines invite to send its NSA, FM to Pakistan
Move suggests Kabul not interested in ‘meaningful engagement’
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Pope takes in more Syrian asylum-seekers from Greece
Over 1.1 million people have crossed clandestinely from Turkey to Greece since the start of 2015
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Palestinians begin sea border talks with Egypt
Neither Israel nor the United States have ratified the UN convention on the sea
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Boko Haram kills 24 women at a funeral in Nigeria
Former local govt chairman says attack happened at about 8:00 pm in Kuda village near town of Gulak in Adamawa state
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Istanbul bans gay pride march on security grounds
"We urge our dear Istanbul residents not to heed calls to take part and to comply with warnings by security forces"
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Obama hosts powerful Saudi prince
Mohammed bin Salman is Saudi King's son and country's defence minister
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Google thanks grandmother for her 'ultra-polite' online search
86-year-old May Ashworth thinks there is some person at Google's headquarters who looks after the searches
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Wildfires in California, New Mexico trigger evacuations
About 1,200 firefighters were trying to keep the fire from exploding out of control as airplane tankers dropped water
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Afghan police tell foreigners in Kabul to stay in or hire guards
Chief of Kabul police's Criminal Investigation Department says the push is for the safety of residents
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Famed artist Christo invites public to walk on water
It's not a painting, it's not a sculpture. You need to walk on it... It's physical, not virtual
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Indonesia says 44 migrants must sail on after being resupplied
The boat carrying the 44 people was found stranded off the coast of the northern Indonesian province of Aceh last week
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Second black box retrieved from crashed EgyptAir plane
The recorder was 'retrieved in several pieces', says statement
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German court to rule on ex-Auschwitz guard, 94
More than 70 years after World War II, Hanning stands accused of complicity at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland
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Turkey PM wants 'no permanent enmity' with neighbours
Some analysts have suggested that Davutoglu made way for Yildirim to allow a more reconciliatory foreign policy

















































