Astronomers just discovered the oldest known star in the universe

Bangladesh factory owners surrender after being charged for deaths of 112 garment workers

Yemen president approves plan to split the country into federation of six regions

Pussy Riot members say they might run for Moscow city government

Yellen says Fed will maintain course on trimming stimulus

Scandal-hit Barclays bank is cutting 12,000 jobs despite giving itself $3.9 billion in bonuses

Ex-Guatemalan soldier gets 10 years in US prison for lying about massacre

North and South Korea hold first high-level talks in seven years

Central African president vows war against ‘anti-balaka’ militia

Italy Prime Minister Letta to resign on Friday, Renzi seen taking over

Afghanistan releases 65 prisoners in spite of warnings from the US

Kidnapped Pakistani anti-drone activist reappears, says he was tortured

Russian skicross racer Maria Komissarova badly hurt in training run

Crisis in Thailand intensifies: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra under siege

Kerry blames Assad government for stonewalling latest Syria peace talks

US Secretary of State John Kerry calls climate change ‘weapon of mass destruction’

Venezuela opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez gives himself up

Thai court warns against using emergency powers to crack down on protesters

Venezuela unrest kills fifth person, imprisoned protest leader Leopoldo Lopez faces court

Violence escalates in divided Venezuela

Libyans vote for constitution body amid bombs, tensions

Scene of Boko Haram attack that left 98 dead in Nigeria ‘still smelt faintly of charred flesh’

Ukraine’s acting president calls separatism a ‘serious threat’ (LIVE BLOG)

Pakistani Taliban commander shot dead in Waziristan

Seven anti-Putin protesters sentenced to jail, more than 400 detained

Egypt’s government resigns, leaving path to presidency clear for army chief Sisi

59 students killed in Boko Haram attack in Nigeria — some ‘burned to ashes’

Muslim converts who hacked British soldier to death jailed for life

Pro-Assad forces kill 175 rebels in ambush: Syrian state media

The same plastic chemicals in yoga mats and shoes are found in nearly 500 foods

North Korea fires short-range missiles in apparent exercise

Witnesses recall fear, chaos after China train station attack

Thailand may extend state of emergency despite scaled-back protest

Israel says the Gaza-bound rocket shipment it seized is from Iran

UN report calls on Security Council to refer Syrian atrocities like ‘starvation until submission’ to the ICC

China’s President Xi Jinping ramps up military spending

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim sentenced to five years in prison on sodomy charge

Malaysia Airlines plane vanished at sea with 239 people aboard

North Korean voters can cast a ballot, but only for one candidate

Mexico says it has killed a drug lord who was reported dead years ago

Afghan Taliban threatens to attack ‘sham elections by full force’

UN launches investigation to bring killers to justice in Central African Republic

Inspections of Bangladesh garment factories reveal overloaded ceilings, locked fire escapes

Ex-rebel’s lead in El Salvador poll ‘irreversible’

North Korea is using sophisticated means to avoid UN sanctions

Swedish-British journalist Nils Horner shot dead in central Kabul

The death of this Turkish boy injured in protests last year has sparked fresh unrest

A Chilean woman is the first foreign fatality in the protests in Venezuela

Malaysian military believes missing plane may have flown west

Bachelet is back as Chile’s president and she wants to address social inequality

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane may have strayed toward Andaman Sea

Malaysia says there was no evidence missing plane flew for hours after losing contact

Turkey’s Erdogan accused protesters of trying to sow chaos after riot police used tear gas, water cannons on them

Venezuela says death toll from protests rises to 28

Investigators focus on foul play behind missing Malaysia Airlines plane

Boko Haram attacks have displaced thousands in Nigeria this year: Human Rights Watch

Serbian paramilitaries join pro-Russian forces in Crimea

Syria has agreed to give more access to aid groups to provide supplies: UNICEF

Venezuela’s foreign minister calls Kerry ‘murderer’

Police hunt for motive as search for Malaysian jet spans hemispheres