A COURT in Brussels ordered the trial of a former diplomat on Tuesday for involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961.The court said 93-year-old Ettienne Davignon, the only surviving Belgian ...

CHINA is sending humanitarian aid to Iran, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, officials announced today.Beijing said it has allocated $200,000 (around £150,000) in emergency humanitarian assistance to the ...

EL SALVADOR’S Congress approved a constitutional amendment proposed by the country’s far-right president on Tuesday, permitting life sentences in a country that has imprisoned more than 1 per cent of ...

QATAR Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari blamed Israel today for an attack on an offshore natural gas field which his ...

RIKO UEKI and Maika Hamano scored first-half goals to set Japan on course for a 4-1 victory over South Korea today and a spot ...

THOUSANDS of teaching assistants (TAs) are set for pay rise of up to £1,350 after the Welsh government ended the use of level-one roles.Cabinet Secretary for Education Lynne Neagle confirmed today ...

CUBAN President Miguel Diaz-Canel has slammed United States efforts aimed at overthrowing the Caribbean nation’s ...

JOS BUTTLER accepts he had a “poor tournament” at the T20 World Cup but has not given up on playing for England again.Buttler ...

THE Senegalese government and football federation have launched a fierce response after the country was stripped of the Africa Cup of Nations title in a highly controversial decision that has sent ...

COUNT Etienne Davignon being ordered to stand trial over his alleged role in the murder of Congolese revolutionary Patrice ...

These Are My Bounds: poems and proseTom Kelly, Red Squirrel Press, £10THESE ARE MY BOUNDS is Tyneside poet Tom Kelly’s 14th ...

THE Prince of Wales is definitely overstretched.In Japan one moment, supposedly heading for the Middle East the next, and ...