Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and prime minister-nominee Imran Khan appeared before the country’s anti-corruption body National Accountability Bureau’s combined investigation committee (CIT) Tuesday (August 7). The National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The Beckham family were caught up in the powerful earthquake that hit the island of Lombok in Indonesia, and killed at least 142 people. David and Victoria were holidaying with their four children Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper when the quake struck on Sunday. The family of the

Thousands of tourists have scrambled to packed beaches to be rescued from paradise islands in Indonesia after a devastating earthquake that is feared to have left at least 140 dead. Footage shows holidaymakers crammed onto palm tree-fringed beaches on Gili Trawangan - some having spent

Saudi Arabia's state airliner has suspended its direct flights to Toronto after Canada called for the release of detained activists for civil society and women's rights. The Middle Eastern country has also frozen all trade and expelled Canada's ambassador over the

A tanker truck carrying flammable material exploded Monday after rear-ending a stopped truck on a crowded highway near the northern Italian city of Bologna, killing at least two people, injuring up to 70 and causing part of the raised expressway to collapse. Italian police said between

Four workers were killed and nine were missing after an explosion at a small coal mine in China’s Guizhou province on Monday (Aug 6) night. The incident happened at Zimujia coal mine, run by privately owned Pannan Coal Investment Company, in Panzhou city. The coal mine has a designed

Saudi Arabia has expelled the Canadian ambassador and frozen all new trade and investment with Ottawa after Canada's Foreign Ministry criticized human-rights violations in the Islamic kingdom. In a statement released Sunday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Canadian

Security forces gunned down 14 alleged members of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) in an encounter in Sukma district of India’s South Chhattisgarh on Monday (August 6). The incident took place near Nukaltung area under Konta block of Sukma district at around 7 am local

At least 91 people are now known to have died after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Lombok. Hundreds of people have been wounded by Sunday's quake, officials say, mostly in the north of the island. The magnitude 7.0 tremor was shallow, occurring only 10km

A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake has hit the Indonesian island of Lombok, prompting a tsunami warning. The US Geological Survey said the quake, off the north coast of the island, struck 10km (6.21 miles) underground. It comes a week after another quake hit the island, which is

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro emerged on his country's national TV hours after what he called an "attempt against his life" on Saturday and pointed blame at far-right elements and Colombia's outgoing president, Juan Manuel Santos. "I'm alive and victorious," he said,

North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs, violating UN sanctions, says a report commissioned by the UN Security Council. It also says Pyongyang has resorted to a "massive increase" of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil products and has been trying to sell weapons

A Mi-8 helicopter with passengers on board has crashed in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, in Russia. According to preliminary reports, 18 people have died in the crash. According to an emergency services source cited by TASS, the helicopter was operated by the Utair airline. It was

A boat overloaded with passengers in northern Nigeria has capsized, killing 21 people, according to the state rescue agency. The boat with an estimated 50 passengers on board overturned in strong currents in a river in the Gandi district of Sokoto state on Thursday, reports Al-Jazeera

A suicide bomber slipped undetected into a Shiite Muslim mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Friday (August 3) killing at least 25 people and wounding at least 23, a provincial government official said. The attacker blew himself up as worshippers gathered in the mosque for weekly prayers

As millions of Zimbabweans waited to learn who their next president would be, violent clashes broke out in the capital city of Harare on Wednesday (August 1) between security forces and supporters of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.  At least three people were reportedly killed in

North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration and pledges to denuclearise, reports say. Unnamed US officials told the Washington Post that spy satellites had spotted continuing activity at a site that has produced

A Filipino soldier, five militiamen and four villagers died when a powerful bomb exploded inside a van the troops were inspecting in a southern province, military officials said. Regional military spokesman Lt. Col. Gerry Besana said one other government militiaman was wounded in

Over 200 hikers have been trapped on a mountain on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok following a deadly earthquake triggered landslides which cut off escape routes. Hundreds of rescue workers started working to evacuate them from Mount Rinjani, a popular hiking destination.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has killed at least 10 people on the Indonesian island of Lombok, some 140 miles of east of Bali, according to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The dead include a Malaysian citizen, Indonesia's National