Former Peruvian President Alan García has killed himself after police showed up at his home to arrest him over bribery charges.
As Sudanese protesters continue to throng the streets demanding the removal of all former regime heads from positions of power in the government, the country’s former ruler Omar Al-Bashir has been sent to a prison in the country's capital Khartoum.
An investigative report has highlighted that a flood of fake reviews for relatively unknown brands has hit the world’s largest e-commerce site Amazon.
The fire at Notre Dame cathedral has damaged large parts of the ancient structure but initial reports suggest that many if not most of the artworks and artifacts have in fact been saved from the fire due to the timely effort by Paris’ firefighters.
After Italy, Switzerland has become the second European country to agree to sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Over 190 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in the elections in the world’s third largest democracy. The contest is between incumbent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and former general Prabowo Subianto.
US President Donald Trump seems to be ahead in the 2020 presidential race when it comes to funding as he has already received over US $30 million in donation in the first quarter of 2019.
Jared Kushner's peace plan for Israel and Palestine often dubbed the ‘deal of the century’ by the US President, according to a report in the Washington Post, does not include a sovereign Palestine state.
The Chinese government has deployed a powerful artificial intelligence tool against its own population – it is using facial recognition software powered by AI to track Uighur Muslims in public spaces.
IMF members are scheduled to travel to Pakistan at the end of this month to discuss Islamabad’s request for a bailout package but among other things, the CPEC project is turning out to be a contentious issue for both sides involved in the discussions.
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has warned of “dark and very dangerous” prospects unless the U.S. changes its negotiating policy by the end of the year, according to North Korean state media.
Police officers in Pasco County, Florida had their hands full when called upon to deal with a car load of naked girls who refused to listen to orders and led the policemen on an hour-long car chase.
The town of Salisbury is in the news again, but for a good reason as it has been named the best place to live in Britain. The honour was bestowed on the town by The Sunday Times.
After German divers discovered a World War II-era bomb in Frankfurt’s River Main, the bomb has now been detonated on the river bed.
Sudan’s army has toppled the country’s long-time ruler Omar Al-Bashir and placed him under arrest. Bashir has ruled Sudan with an iron-fist for nearly 30 years.
The Israeli spacecraft, Beresheet - the first privately funded mission to the Moon was unable to make a landing on the Moon’s surface and has crashed after one of its main engines failed.
The drama over Brexit in the last two months and the current UK government's inability to pass a Brexit Bill in the UK parliament has led EU country leaders to giving Theresa May an extended Brexit deadline of until October 31.
American whistleblower-in-exile Edward Snowden has called Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest a "dark moment for press freedom." Assange was arrested in London after Ecuador withdrew the political asylum granted to him.
Gita Gopinath Chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, she has also cautioned there are certain issues in the manner in which numbers are being tabulated which has been conveyed to New Delhi.
The Blue and White party, headed by former Israeli army chief of staff Benny Gantz conceded defeat to Likud party’s Benjamin Netanyahu in the general elections after the incumbent prime minister managed to bring together right-wing allies to claim a majority in the country’s parliament.
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