A failed Iraqi asylum seeker has been handed life in prison for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old German girl. Ali Bashar, 22, had admitted in court in Wiesbaden that he strangled Susanna Feldman on 23 May 2018, but claimed he did not know how it happened. Her body was found two

Sir Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, as a row over leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration escalates. The US president had branded him "a very stupid guy" after emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration "clumsy and

Iran's president Hassan Rouhani has told the UK it faces "consequences" after British forces seized an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar. The Grace 1 was boarded by Royal Marines last week over accusations it was breaking sanctions by taking an estimated two million barrels of crude

Terror group Al Qaeda's Chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has told "Mujahideen in Kashmir" to inflict "unrelenting blows" on the Indian Army and government in Jammu and Kashmir in a message released by the outfit's media wing, as per the Foundation for Defence of Democracies' (FDD)

Women and children are among a group of people murdered in a tribal massacre in Papua New Guinea's Highlands area. At least 24 people are confirmed to have died in a brutal flare up of violence between rival tribes over several days in Hela province. Some reports put the death toll

A senior general has said the US wants to create an international military coalition to safeguard waters around Iran and Yemen. Marine General Joseph Dunford said he wanted to "ensure freedom of navigation" in the region, which provides essential trade routes. Last month the US

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said the controversial bill that would have allowed extradition to the Chinese mainland "is dead". In a press conference on Tuesday, Ms Lam said the government's work on the bill had been a "total failure". But she stopped short of saying it had

Downing Street has reaffirmed its "full support" for the UK's ambassador to the US after Donald Trump said he will no longer work with him. The US president was responding after leaked emails revealed Sir Kim Darroch had called his administration inept. In a series of tweets, Mr

The US State Department has approved a potential arms sale to Taiwan, estimated to be worth $2.2bn (£1.76bn), the Pentagon said. The deal is for 108 Abrams tanks, 250 Stinger missiles and related equipment. Last month, China's Foreign Ministry had urged the US to halt the sale,

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has conceded defeat in the country's general election as conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis secured a comfortable parliamentary majority. With more than 90% of votes counted, Mr Mitsotakis's New Democracy party had 39.8% of

Twenty-nine people were killed when the bus in which they were travelling in skidded off the six-lane Yamuna Expressway near Delhi and fell 50 feet into a large drain. Seventeen people were injured. The 165-km-long expressway connects Noida with Agra in Uttar Pradesh. The bus, carrying

Iran has announced it will break a limit set on uranium enrichment, in breach of the landmark 2015 deal designed to curb its nuclear ambitions. Deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran still wanted to salvage the deal but blamed European countries for failing to live up to their

A group of 41 rescued migrants have disembarked from a charity ship in Italy, a day after the captain defied a ban on docking in the country. Despite warnings, the Alex sailed to the port on Saturday because of "intolerable hygienic conditions" aboard. The migrants have now all come

The 14 Russian seamen who died in a fire on one of the navy's research submersibles earlier this week were laid to rest in St. Petersburg on Saturday. The sailors were killed in the blaze on the unnamed submarine in the Barents Sea on Monday. Officials withheld details of the

The UK is going through a "political nervous breakdown", a former intelligence chief has told the BBC. Sir John Sawers said the UK could have a prime minister who does "not have the standing that we have become used to in our top leadership" - a criticism of the two Tory leadership

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab, which covers the entire face apart from the eyes, in government offices, citing security reasons. The order comes after three suicide bombings in the capital, Tunis, in the space of a week. One rights group

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has rattled a desert area of Southern California, US meteorologists say, in the biggest tremor to strike in two decades. It struck at the shallow depth of 0.9km (0.6 miles) and its epicentre was near the city of Ridgecrest, about 240km north-east of Los

The Trump administration will continue to pursue a way of adding a citizenship question to the census, lawyers said in court filings submitted on Friday. But administration lawyers failed to provide any legal justification for the census question by a court deadline. The Supreme

An Iranian official has said a British oil tanker should be seized, if a detained Iranian ship is not released. British Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize the super-tanker Grace 1 on Thursday, after it was suspected of carrying oil from Iran to Syria, in breach of EU

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Southern California this morning. The earthquake was centered near Ridgecrest, California, a community west of the Mojave Desert and about 150 miles north of Los Angeles.  It was felt in both Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It was the worst in decades.