Sydney's terror siege ended in tragedy early Tuesday morning with three dead - including the lone gunman - as police stormed the cafe.
Australia's heavily armed police raided a Sydney cafe under siege after a police sniper witnessed the gunman shoot a hostage, local media reported on Tuesday.
A former London banker was banned for life from doing any work in the financial services industry as he avoided buying train tickets for a long time, London's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Monday.
South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday urged people to keep Nelson Mandela's legacy alive while paying tribute to Mandela who died this month one year ago, calling for continued efforts in building a society where peace, tolerance, justice and human rights are upheld.
A gunman, who held an unknown number of people hostage in a downtown Sydney cafe on Monday, has been identified after five hostages managed to flee the hours-long siege.
The younger brother of South Korean President Park Geun-hye appeared at prosecutors' office on Monday for questioning about whether he was involved in the leakage of a presidential document.
A man sentenced to death and executed in a controversial 1996 rape and murder case was acquitted of his crimes 18 years later in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Monday.
Opposition leaders in Brazil on Friday called for replacement of Petrobras CEO Graca Foster in the wake of a major corruption scandal hitting the state-run oil and gas giant.
The CIA brutal interrogation techniques cited in a recent U.S. Senate report has attracted attention about the plight of Pakistani prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram detention center in Afghanistan.
There has never been a secret prison run by a United States agency in Thailand where suspected terrorists might otherwise have been held or tortured, said a high- level Thai government official on Thursday.
Australian Attorney General George Brandis has hit back following David Hicks'heckling at a public ceremony in Sydney, labeling the former Guantanamo Bay detainee as a"terrorist."
"Shirtfront" has been named Australia's 2014 word of the year, the Australian National University announced on Wednesday on behalf of the Australian National Dictionary Center.
British millionaire Shrien Dewani left South Africa for Britain on Tuesday, one day after being acquitted for the death of his wife.
The defense lawyer of former medical student Lin Senhao, who was sentenced to death in February after being convicted of intentionally killing his roommate by poisoning, presented new evidence at a second trial on Monday, saying the victim died of the hepatitis B virus.
Europe's rapid migration to 4G services and devices helped to stimulate the recovery of the mobile industry, according to a new GSM Association (GSMA) report published during the GSMA Mobile 360-Europe event here on Monday.
Europe's rapid migration to 4G services and devices helped to stimulate the recovery of the mobile industry, according to a new GSM Association (GSMA) report published during the GSMA Mobile 360-Europe event here on Monday.
The second episode of a serial documentary on the Nanjing Massacre was released on Monday ahead of the inaugural National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims.
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