The proposed runoff system is “more democratic” and will do no harm to voters who support a candidate who failed to win the first round of elections. If anything, the proposed system gives those voters more options than they now have. So said Nigel Henry, ...

MOSUL DAM, Iraq - Kurdish soldiers who drove ISIS fighters from Iraq's most important dam thanked the U.S. for helping dislodge the jihadist fighters who have rampaged across the country in recent months. “Thank you America,” said some of the troops who ...

The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days last week, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organisation revealed today. The latest figures came as it emerged that a 48-year-old British woman who collapsed and died in Austria ...

Law-enforcement tactics in Ferguson, Missouri, have shifted more than once since last week's shooting of Michael Brown, and last night marked a new posture: the curfew was lifted, but the National Guard was on hand. And for a while, it appeared that ...

Geneva, Aug 19 (IANS/EFE) The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa has caused 1,229 deaths and has affected 2,240 people so far this year, according to new figures released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday. The UN health ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by former World Cup winning Captain Mr. Imran Khan is currently holding, what their leader believes, is a historical sit-in in the country's capital to demand the incumbent Prime Minister, Mr. Nawaz Sharif, and his brother, ...

Illawarra Metallurgical Coal has been named as one of BHP Billiton's assets to be split off into a new company, dubbed NewCo. The mining giant is spinning off its coal, aluminium, manganese, nickel and silver assets into the new company. Assets selected ...

A general view shows the destruction in part of Gaza City's al-Tufah neighbourhood. (Mahmud Hams, AP). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your stories ...

In the end, Barcelona fans didn't have to wait all that long to see Luis Suarez in action. The Uruguayan striker, who swapped Merseyside for the continental glamour of Catalonia in perhaps the summer's most notable transfer so far, was only expected to pull ...

KYIV—. Pro-Moscow separatists and Ukrainian government officials are swapping accusations over who was behind a rocket strike on a convoy of civilians as it left the eastern city of Luhansk. The circumstances remain murky and the allegations being made ...

Missouri police have arrested 31 people after racial unrest rocked Ferguson, following the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer. Protests continue in Ferguson after 18-year-old unarmed black civilian Michael Brown was killed by a white police ...

Incensed over Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Basit meeting separatists from Jammu & Kashmir, India has called off the Foreign Secretary-level dialogue scheduled for August 25 in Islamabad. Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh spoke to Basit late ...

India on Monday called off its Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan, sending a strong message to the country after its envoy held an hour-long meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders in Delhi despite a warning by India against it. Hurriyat leader Syed Ali ...

The Odd Future member is not a fan of Swift's twerking and hip-hop referencing Shake It Off clip (which he's not actually watched yet), and says it is guilty of 'perpetuating black stereotypes'. 'Haven't watched the taylor swift video and I don't need to watch it to ...

The latest official inflation figures, released this morning, show that the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) fell to 1.6% in July. Down 0.3% on June's figure, it also marks the eighth consecutive month that inflation has remained at or below the Bank of England's ...

Iraqi and Kurdish forces recently seized control of the key site from extremists as clashes also rage in Saddam's hometown Tikrit. 11:53am UK, Tuesday 19 August 2014. Smoke rises from an area close to Iraq's Mosul dam. Smoke rises from an area close to ...

Ebola Doctors The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that cases in West Africa's Ebola outbreak this year have risen to 2,240, including 1,229 deaths. The WHO said it was working with the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) to ensure food ...

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Ukrainian soldiers have recovered 15 bodies from Monday's attack on a refugee convoy in the eastern Luhansk region, a spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said Tuesday. Col. Andriy Lysenko told a press ...

UK inflation fell to 1.6% making pay rises much less likely in 2014. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA. The City was surprised by the fall in the annual inflation rate to 1.6%. It shouldn't have been since the explanation was simple: the summer sales came late this ...

The UK will not be “dragged into a war in Iraq”, ministers insisted as the Government defended its decision to move beyond simply providing humanitarian aid. Also in this Section. 50 passengers escape M5 coach crash · No filming at gigs, Bush urges fans ...