USA: FBI charges man with alleged plot to bomb New York Stock Exchange

A Florida man has been arrested and charged with plotting to set off a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), according to court documents. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener is…

USA: 43-year-old man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home

A 43-year-old man was fatally shot by police in Las Vegas after he called 911 for help while fighting off an intruder in his home. The family of Brandon Durham,…

Russia: President Putin gifts lion and brown bears to North Korea zoo

Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korea’s main zoo more than 70 animals, including a lion and two brown bears, in yet another display of burgeoning relations between Moscow…

USA: Authorities charge Indian billionaire Gautam Adani with fraud

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been charged with fraud in the US, which has accused him of orchestrating a $250m (£198m) bribery scheme and concealing it to raise money in…

Laos: Four tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning

Australian teen Bianca Jones has become the fourth tourist to have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos. The 19-year-old’s family confirmed her death to the media on Thursday.…

Mali: Government wins $160m in gold mining dispute after detaining British businessman

An Australian mining company, Resolute Mining, says it will pay Mali’s military government $160m (£126m) to settle a tax dispute, after the company’s British boss and two other staff were…

Russia: Putin warns the west that the Ukraine war is going global

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that an attack by his forces on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday morning was carried out using “a new conventional intermediate-range…

Ukraine: President Putin confirms testing new ballistic missile on city of Dnipro

Ukraine has accused Russia of firing a new kind of missile at the city of Dnipro as Moscow said it tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile in a strike on Ukraine,…

Iraq: Government conducts first national census in nearly 40 years

 Iraq is conducting a nationwide census, its first attempt to gather demographic data since 1987 when Saddam Hussein was still in power. The Ministry of Interior announced a two-day curfew…

Thailand: Woman accused of murdering 14 friends with cyanide sentenced to death

A woman in Thailand has been sentenced to death in the first of a string of cases in which she is accused of murdering 14 friends with cyanide. The court…