Two car bombs in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Sunday killed 31 people and wounded dozens, the latest in a series of large attacks claimed by the Islamic State group as the country grapples with a worsening political crisis. The attacks came the day after thousands of anti-government protesters poured into Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone and stormed parliament, the culmination of…

Kensington Palace shared new photos of Princess Charlotte before her first birthday on May 2. Princess Charlotte at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, U.K., in a photo made available by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on May 1, 2016. These photos of the daughter of Prince William and Kate Middleton were taken in April at Anmer Hall, the Norfolk home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the palace said in a…

Crews have rescued a 72-year-old survivor of Ecuador's deadly earthquake almost two weeks after it struck the South American country, Venezuela announced Saturday. A visiting Venezuelan search team located Manuel Vasquez, who had been trapped under rubble since the 7.8-magnitude quake that killed 660 people, the Venezuelan embassy in Quito said on its website. They found Vasquez "making sounds…

The inaugural summit of the so-called Giants Club will be led by the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. As well as heads of state, the conservation group will bring together business leaders and scientists. Experts say Africa's elephant population has fallen by 90% over the past century and warn that the animal could be extinct within decades. Among those expected to attend the summit are Ugandan…

Air strikes destroyed a hospital and killed dozens of people in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo including children and doctors, while the United Nations called on Moscow and Washington to salvage a "barely alive" ceasefire. The city of Aleppo is at the center of a military escalation that has undermined peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending the five-year-old war and U.N. envoy Staffan…

Seoul, South Korea:  North Korea has completed preparations for a fifth nuclear test, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said today, amid reports that Pyongyang has also readied a powerful, new mid-range missile for an imminent flight test. Concern has been growing for weeks that the North is building up to a fifth nuclear test ahead of a rare, ruling party congress to be held early next month.…

Warsaw, Poland:  Three former Polish presidents have accused the ruling rightwing conservative party of destroying the country's constitution, urging its citizens to "defend democracy" in an appeal published today. In the statement, Lech Walesa, Aleksander Kwasniewski and Bronislaw Komorowski accused the Law and Justice (PiS) party of "destroying the constitutional order and…

Beirut, Lebanon:  At least 19 civilians were killed and 120 wounded in rebel bombardment of Syrian government-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, a monitoring group said. "Shells fired... by rebel groups at districts under regime control left 19 dead, including three children, and 120 wounded," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head, Rami Abdel Rahman.…

US President Barack Obama on Sunday called for Syria’s warring parties to reinstate a troubled ceasefire, as regime and rebel bombardments killed 26 civilians in the flashpoint city of Aleppo. Eight weeks into the declared truce between President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and non-jihadist rebels, violence has escalated around Aleppo, with dozens killed by government air strikes and rebel…

French president Francois Hollande has scrapped plans to strip convicted terrorists with dual nationality of their French passports and deport them.The reforms included clauses to strip citizenship of people convicted of an "attack on the life of the nation", and enshrine some security measures implemented under a state of emergency more permanently. "Parts of the opposition have been…

Two of the men who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday have been named by Belgian media as the brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui. The RTBF broadcaster said the pair were known to police. It is believed at least one was among three suspects seen in a CCTV image at Zaventem airport. Twin explosions at the airport and another at a metro station on Tuesday left about 34 dead and 250 wounded.…

London's Gatwick airport stepped up security on Tuesday after a string of explosions in Brussels as British Prime Minister David Cameron prepared to hold an emergency cabinet meeting on the attacks. A string of explosions rocked Brussels airport and a city metro station on Tuesday, killing at least 21 people, according to firefighters, as Belgium raised its terror threat to the maximum level.…

Mr Hogan's legal team argued the New York-based website violated his privacy and the video was not newsworthy. The case, which pitted freedom of the press against a celebrity's right to privacy, has been closely watched. The video was posted in 2012 after Mr Hogan was secretly recorded having sex with his friend's wife. Lawyers for Gawker argued that although jurors might find the website's…