South African “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee and one of world athletics’ biggest names, was charged Thursday with shooting dead his girlfriend at his Pretoria home.

President Barack Obama said North Korea’s latest nuclear test was a “highly provocative act” that hurt stability in the region and called its nuclear programme threat to US and international security.

In a Pakistan Army base high in the mountains on the Afghan frontier, a general explains a strategy for fighting the Taliban he calls simply “WHAM”.

Oscar-winning couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are expecting their second child, according to US Media reports on Friday.

Five men pleaded not guilty on Saturday to charges they raped and murdered an Indian trainee physiotherapist, in a case that led to a shake-up of laws against sexual crimes after protests about a rising number of attacks on women.

Militants attacked an isolated army checkpoint in Pakistan’s restive north-west on Saturday, with at least 31 people killed in the initial assault, subsequent crossfire and a rocket attack on a house, officials said.

At least 200 people were killed in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil on Sunday after a band’s pyrotechnics show set the establishment ablaze, local officials said.

An Egyptian court sentenced to death on Saturday 21 people accused of involvement in the Port Said soccer stadium disaster in which 74 people were killed last year, the judge said.

Kingfisher Airlines needs at least 10 billion rupees ($185.65 million) to restart its grounded operations and must also demonstrate an ability to sustain itself for at least 6 months, India’s civil aviation minister said on Tuesday.

Algerian special forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, a security source said on Monday, as the death toll reached at least 80 after troops stormed the complex to end the hostage crisis.