German Election: Angela Merkel's Lead Tightens

Will There Be Victory For 'Mutti'? Updated: 11:19pm UK, Friday 20 September 2013 By Robert Nisbet, Europe Correspondent, in Berlin The elections in Germany this weekend could produce a Pizza, a Jamaican or a Lebanon, but "Mutti" is still likely...

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Mexico Landslide: Search Continues For Victims

Mexican soldiers are digging through tons of mud and dirt in their continuing search for landslide victims. Authorities are also looking for a police helicopter that went missing while carrying out relief operations on the flood-stricken Pacific coast....

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Assad 'Is At Stalemate And Wants Ceasefire'

Bashar al Assad's forces are at a stalemate with rebels and the Government will soon call for a ceasefire, Syria's deputy prime minister has said. Speaking on behalf of the Government, Qadri Jamil told The Guardian that neither side was strong enough...

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Rhino Poaching Deaths Set For Record High

By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in the Eastern Cape The number of rhinos killed in South Africa looks set to exceed last year's record total. With just three months left in 2013, the number of rhinos killed is more than 500 and appears...

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Rouhani: 'Iran Does Not Want Nuclear Weapons'

Iran has never sought and will never seek nuclear weapons, President Hasan Rouhani has said in an interview. Speaking to NBC News in Tehran, Mr Rouhani addressed the possibility Tehran could be prepared to make concessions on its nuclear programme....

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Assad To Destroy Chemical Weapons 'In A Year'

Syrian leader Bashar al Assad says he is committed to destroying his stockpile of chemical arms - but warned it would take a year to do so. In an interview with Fox News, Mr Assad said he was committed to getting rid of the arsenal but conceded it would...

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Cop Killer Sets Fire To Himself In Siege

An Austrian gunman who shot dead three police officers and a paramedic has died after setting fire to himself at the end of a five-hour stand-off. Alois Huber's burned body was discovered by commandos who stormed his home, 55 miles west of Vienna, shortly...

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Mexico Storms: Tourists Evacuated In Acapulco

Emergency flights are starting to evacuate some of the 40,000 tourists stranded in a flood-hit Mexican holiday resort. Landslides, rockslides, floods and collapsed bridges have cut off the resort city of Acapulco after Tropical Storm Manuel hit the...

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Syria: Chemical Weapons Were Used, UN Says

A report which provides "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used in Syria makes for "chilling reading", the UN Secretary-General has said. Ban Ki-moon said the evidence published by UN weapons inspectors was "overwhelming and...

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Washington Navy Yard Shooting: Several Dead

A former Navy reservist who gunned down 12 people in an attack on one of the US's biggest navy yards had previously carried out an anger-fuelled shooting and was traumatised by 9/11, it has emerged. Aaron Alexis, from Forth Worth, Texas, was killed...

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Syria: Nervous Children Return To School

By Sky Arthy, Sky News Producer, in Damascus Five million pupils were due back in school on Sunday in Syria at the start of the new year. It is a scene that is played out across the world and it looks no different in Damascus. Excited five-year-olds...

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Syria: Chemical Weapons Report Due For Release

Doctors Plea For Syria Medical Aid Updated: 2:22am UK, Monday 16 September 2013 British doctors write an open letter in the Lancet medical journal calling for attacks on hospitals and medics to halt in Syria. The conflict in Syria has led to what...

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Syria Weapons Deal Boosts Putin's Profile

Between The Lines Of Putin's Letter Updated: 3:04pm UK, Thursday 12 September 2013 By Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs Editor The Russian President has again seized the initiative with his opinion piece in the New York Times in which he speaks "directly...

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Syria Has One Week To Detail Chemical Weapons

Syria: How The Crisis Has Developed Updated: 2:33pm UK, Saturday 14 September 2013 :: March 2011 - Protesters stage demonstrations in Damascus and security forces in Daraa shoot dead several campaigners, leading to unrest and violence. :: May - The...

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