The new deaths would take the total to 20 so far this winter, with the majority linked to the H1N1 swine flu virus. Laboratory tests on the latest deaths in Leicester are awaited.

KATE MIDDLETON gets to become the queen of England and live in a palace all because she met a cute guy in college. And she has just been assigned her own bodyguard. It’s a modern-day fairy tale, with a security detail.

Regardless of what they are doing, almost without exception, people’s minds wander — whether they mull over arguments with loved ones in the shower, think about weekend plans at work, or stumble on a creative new insight on their commute.

Thirteen people travelling to mourn victims of a bus crash drowned when their boat capsized in Sudan’s White Nile state, a state government spokesman said on Saturday.

This is not the first time that Israeli army is in limelight and that too for a bad reason. This time the victims are again Palestinians but sadly the children. Israeli soldiers are accused of abusing the Palestinian children during prisoner...

Two senior voting officials have been charged with vote tampering and sentenced to one year in prison a week before Guinea’s crucial presidential vote, in a court proceeding that not even their lawyers were informed of and which is bound to...

The UN’s secretary general has urged Rwanda not to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan over a leaked report saying its troops may have committed genocide.

The army in Southern Sudan has pledged to demobilise all child soldiers by the end of the year. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) has established a child protection unit to fulfil the pledge. The UN children’s agency estimates that...

Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is reportedly to return to the UK within hours, after evading trial since 1993. Mr Nadir told the Times he was leaving his home in northern Cyprus to face fraud charges relating to the collapse of his Polly Peck business...

Standing in the narrow streets of Shatila refugee camp, south Beirut, as battered mopeds speed past and electrical wires dangle messily overhead, seven-year-old Hasan Hameid is clear about what he wants to do when he grows up: “I want to be a...