Take You Around the World

Burkina Faso attacks: 'Two female terrorists killed' after Al-Qaeda jihadists murder 23 people in second hotel siege

 

More than 120 hostages rescued with survivors describing how they "played dead" to avoid being shot after second day of terror attacks in Ouagadougou. Security forces say their count-assault is now over

UN expected to give green light on Iran nuclear deal, end to sanctions

 

Iran's foreign minister hails 'good day for the world' as he arrives in Vienna for report from International Atomic Energy Agency on compliance with nuclear agreement

Taiwan elects first female president in defiance of China warning

 

Victory for Tsai Ing-wen, head of a party promoting independence from China, will likely usher in uncertain relations between Taipei and Beijing

Woman faces jail after Facebook post calling ex-sister-in-law 'stupid'

 

A New York woman is facing a year behind bars after posting a Facebook status tagging in a woman she had been prohibited from contacting by a court order

South Korea prosecutors seek 20 years for American over murder

 

Arthur Patterson is charged with stabbing to death a university student at a Burger King restaurant in Seoul in 1997

Tennessee Powerball winners Lisa and John Robinson will carry on working

 

Couple holding one of three winning tickets for this week's record $1.6 billion U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot will keep their jobs because "you just can't sit down and do nothing"

German town bans asylum seekers from swimming pool

 

Town near Cologne bans male asylum seekers from public swimming pool after harassment complaints

UK military 'working alongside' Saudi bomb targeters in Yemen war

 

Saudi foreign minister confirms claims that British military advisers are in operation room of heavily criticised bombing campaign

Boston bomber Tsarnaev's appeal rejected

 

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's plea for new trial turned down as he is ordered to pay more than $100 million compensation to his victims

'Serious accident' at clinical trial in France leaves one 'brain-dead'

 

French clinical trial goes wrong and hospitalises test subjects