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The leader of Britain’s centre-left Labour party in Scotland said Saturday he plans to step down after a humiliating defeat to nationalists in this month’s general election. Jim Murphy, who lost his

Seventeen alleged coup plotters appeared before a prosecutor in Burundi on Saturday, their lawyer said, the day after the failure of an attempt to overthrow the country’s president. The group included General

Two people were killed and 20 others injured Saturday when a passenger train collided with a tractor trailer carrying manure in northwest Germany, police said. The accident happened in the late morning,

A young girl on Saturday carried out a suicide attack at a bus station in Damaturu in northeastern Nigeria killing seven people and injuring 31, witnesses and the local hospital said. “A

Pakistani paramilitary forces on Saturday killed at least four members of a Baluch insurgent group in the port city of Karachi, officials said. The incident happened in the impoverished neighbourhood of old

Snatched by people traffickers in his native Bangladesh and forced onto a migrant boat, 14-year-old Absaruddin endured a weeks-long nightmare in which he almost starved to death, saw his relatives killed and

Clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian protesters Saturday in the northern West Bank wounded five people, including two photographers, Palestinian sources said. The clashes broke out near an army post just south

A solution to the Cyprus problem is possible within months, the Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator in UN-brokered talks that resumed this week on reunifying the island said on Saturday. “It’s always very

The gas-rich former Soviet state of Turkmenistan has pardoned more than 1,200 prisoners in an amnesty, state media reported Saturday, quoting strongman President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. “Guided by the traditions of charity and