New Zealand mosque massacre toll rises to 50

WELLINGTON – Anguished relatives were anxiously waiting Sunday for authorities to release the remains of those who were killed in massacres at two mosques...

New Zealand mosque shooter a white nationalist seeking revenge

WELLINGTON — The gunman behind at least one of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that left 49 people dead on Friday tried to...

Nicaragua releases prisoners in hopes talks can resume

MANAGUA – The Nicaraguan government on Friday released a second group of prisoners following demands by the opposition for more detainees to be freed...

Nigeria school building collapse killed 20

LAGOS – Twenty people were killed in Wednesday’s collapse of a four-story building containing a primary school in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos and 45...

Mass shootings at New Zealand mosques kill 49

WELLINGTON — Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people on what the prime minister called “one of...

Israel launches Gaza strikes after rockets fired at Tel Aviv

GAZA – Israeli military aircraft bombed Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip on Friday, hours after two rockets were launched from the Palestinian enclave...

North Korea reconsiders nuclear talks, missile ban

SEOUL – North Korea is considering suspending nuclear talks with the United States and its leader may rethink a ban on missile tests, news...

Boeing grounds entire crash aircraft fleet

WASHINGTON – Boeing has grounded its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft after investigators uncovered new evidence at the scene of the fatal...

Deadly Brazil school shooting

SAO PAOLO – The two gunmen who opened fire at a school in southeastern Brazil and killed at least five teenagers were former pupils,...

Facebook suffers the most severe outage in its history

The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users - compared to around 2.3bn...