Turkey is under mounting pressure to stem the flow of jihadists across its border into Syria. The United States was said to be considering air strikes aimed at eliminating individual leaders of Islamic State as Turkey came under mounting pressure to stem the ...

Ferguson home Demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown pass a home as they march through the streets. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, said on Thursday that he found a “fractured” ...

Having no experience whatsoever in the field of sending unfunny digital communiques riddled with lazy stereotypes on a regular basis, the Fiver doesn't know what to make of today's big news regarding former Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay and his ...

A Palestinian man surveys damage after another night of air strikes on Gaza. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters. Three of Hamas's most senior military commanders have been killed in pre-dawn air strikes on Rafa in the south of the Gaza Strip.

The parents of James Foley deliver a statement following the beheading of their son by an Isis militant. Speaking on Wednesday outside their home in Rochester, New Hampshire, John and Diane Foley say they are humbled to have James as a son.

Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, has said the video showing the apparent beheading of a US journalist by an Islamic State fighter was 'an appalling example of the brutality of this organisation'. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA. Philip Hammond, the ...

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, ...

Sean Dyche's Burnley are favourites to go down, while José Mourinho's Chelsea are among the favourites for the title. Photograph: John Marsh/Action, Martin Rickett/PA. Key events. Show. Live feed. Show. 8.19pm BST 15:19. 19 min: It was a well-worked ...

SIR: President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana lacks the vision and competence of the first President of Ghana and foremost Pan-Africanist, Kwame Nkrumah, or even of the recent John Atta Mills, both of blessed memory. Mahama is thriving on impeccable English and high politicking sense. Only Mahama and God know why he decided to go to Kumasi for the end of Ramadan prayer. But he said the Chief Imam of Ashanti Region pleaded with him to come to Kumasi, rather than Accra and that he sought permission from

Displaced Yazidi people who fled Sinjar rest at a border crossing between Iraq and Syria. Photograph: Youssef Boudlal/Reuters. The US and Britain are stepping back from launching a risky military mission to rescue thousands of Iraqis stranded on Mount ...

Angus Houston: 'It's vital we go back when the environment becomes much more permissive.' Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP. No victims' remains were found at the MH17 crash site in the three days before Australian investigators pulled out of the area, ...

The Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for residents in rebel eastern Ukrainian regions on 12 August 2014. Photograph: Kirill Usoltsev/Moe-online.ru/EPA. Wednesday 13 August 2014 15.01 EDT ...

Children are dying of preventable diseases all the time in Africa. The nastiness of the Ebola outbreak shouldn't let us forget that. Share · Tweet this. Email. Health workers in Sierra Leone screen people for the Ebola virus in Kenema, 300km (190 miles) from ...

UN-run schools acting as civilian shelters have been hit seven times during Israel's Gaza offensive. We catalogue them in detail. UNRWA Jabaliya school attack. Jabaliya Elementary Girls School A & B after the 30 July attack by Israeli strike. Photograph: ...

US health regulators on Wednesday authorized the use of an Ebola diagnostic test developed by the Pentagon to help contain the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus. The move was one of a number of steps taken by the US government this week to ...

The centenary has been seized as a military propaganda opportunity. So-called lessons learned have been ignored or forgotten. Pudles jenks war. 'The repetition of virtually identical 'stories from the trenches' becomes banal, a nightly pornography of ...

FOLLOWING several meetings among the top management of A-Sky Airline, health experts and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the airline has been cleared and will soon resume full flights into Nigeria.

Libyans demonstrated in Tripoli last Thursday, calling for more international intervention to protect civilians. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP. The thundering transport plane heaves itself into the sky over Tripoli, engines screaming, and from above you finally ...

Libyans demonstrated in Tripoli last Thursday, calling for more international intervention to protect civilians. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP. The thundering transport plane heaves itself into the sky over Tripoli, engines screaming, and from above you finally ...

Ugandan activists at the constitutional court in Kampala on 30 July, 2014. They are The Ugandan activists seeking to overturn tough anti-gay laws. Photograph: Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images. In a small house, tucked a few narrow alleys away from a busy ...