A Canadian man who killed worshippers in a Quebec City mosque in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison. Alexandre Bissonnette, 29, will be eligible for parole in 40 years. The prosecution had asked for a total of 150 years behind bars, which would have been the harshest jail

A female tiger at London Zoo has been killed by a prospective male mate after the pair were introduced for the first time. The Sumatran tigress, Melati, was brutally attacked after meeting her male mate, Asim, for the first time on Friday. London Zoo said Asim “overpowered”

The US envoy for North Korea has returned from Pyongyang, where he held talks to prepare for a second US-North Korean leadership summit. Stephen Biegun spent three days in discussions, and US officials said he would meet his counterpart again. US President Donald Trump confirmed he

Seven people, including five Jammu & Kashmir police personnel, died after an avalanche hit a police post at Jawahar tunnel in Anantnag district on Thursday evening. J&K police said on Friday that they have recovered seven bodies, rescued two policemen, and one policeman is still

UNHCR is aware of reports of escalating violence and a deteriorating security situation in southern Chin State and Rakhine State. This has reportedly led to internal displacement and a number of new arrivals from Myanmar seeking safety in the Bandarban border region of Bangladesh.

A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials. Khashoggi’s killing by a team of Saudi operatives on 2 October provoked widespread revulsion and

The body recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police have said. Sala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a plane piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. The body was recovered

Maldives Immigration has arrested 80 undocumented workers recently, in its first operation of the year. Maldives Immigration, via twitter, said that the status of expatriate workers was "checked on site" and that 80 were taken in "for further screening." The first operation of the

About 700 residents were evacuated from a New Zealand town on Friday as a forest fire threatened the area. Civil defence authorities decided to evacuate parts of Wakefield on the South Island. Authorities opened up a sports stadium as a welfare centre and said they could accommodate

Millions of unvaccinated children in the Philippines are at risk of catching the highly contagious measles virus, as health bosses issued warnings over a major outbreak. So far this year, there has been a 74 percent increase in measles cases and deaths compared to 2018, according to

Indonesian police found 193 Bangladeshis locked up in a shop house after human traffickers had lured them with the promise of getting them to Malaysia, an immigration official said on Thursday. The men entered Indonesia as tourists via Bali and the city of Yogyakarta with the intention

Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy has submitted an emergency motion to parliament aiming to set up a constitutional amendment committee. The motion submitted on Tuesday marks the first attempts by the NLD to change the constitution since it took office in 2016, and

A Taliban official said the United States had promised to withdraw half of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of April, but the US military said no timeframe had been set. Abdul Salam Hanafi, speaking on the sidelines of a meeting in Moscow between the Taliban and other prominent

A body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane which crashed with Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said specialist contractors joined the operation in "challenging conditions". It was carried

Dutch scientists have been left baffled after 20,000 dead or dying seabirds washed up on North Sea beaches in a phenomenon not seen for decades. The fish-eating guillemots have been washing up between the northern Wadden Islands and southwestern Zeeland - all showing symptoms of severe

US President Donald Trump has announced in his State of the Union speech that he will hold a second nuclear summit with North Korea's leader this month. In an address to the nation with the theme "Choosing Greatness", he vowed once again to build a border wall. While urging

At least one-third of the Himalayan glaciers, among the world’s most vital water resources, are projected to melt by the end of the century even if the most ambitions steps to halt global warming are achieved, a new report finds. And if nothing is done, with green house gas emissions

At least seven people have died and dozens of others are injured after fire engulfed several floors of an eight-story building in Paris, France. Firefighters were summoned to deal with a developing blaze in the 16th arrondissement of Paris in the early hours of Tuesday morning after

The toll from a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil has risen to 134 deaths after more than a week of searches, with 199 missing, authorities said Monday. The count showed the gradual recovery operation of bodies more than a week after the January 25 disaster at the dam, owned

A small plane crashed into a home in California on Sunday, killing the pilot and four others, US officials say. The twin-engine plane came apart and caught fire mid-flight, witnesses told local media, before crashing in Yorba Linda, a suburb of Los Angeles. The flight went awry just