US Navy SEAL forces moved the wounded hostages to an aircraft and flew them to an awaiting naval ship, the Makin Island, off the coast of Yemen. Surgeons and medics worked on the two men on the way to the ship, but one died en route and the other on the operating table, according to the officials.

The International Criminal Court says Libya has violated an obligation to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and it has referred the matter to the UN Security Council.

Bangalore: Authorities in southern India have arrested a 24-year-old man who ran a Twitter account that glorified the so-called Islamic State militant group.

Ferocious fighters, the Pakistani Taliban are loosely aligned with other terrorist forces across Afghanistan and Pakistan. But who really are they and why do they shoot children?

The largest diamond ever cut in Russia - a 100.94 carat stone called the Alrosa Spectacle - will be auctioned in Geneva later this month.

The drop halted a growth streak dating to its founding in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted a flood of people to seek their fortune in the West.

Almost 200 cruise ship passengers on a tour of New Zealand have come down with a stomach bug.

A Turkish court on Monday formally charged three employees of Vice News with having links to a terrorist organisation, the online news channel said, days after they were detained while reporting from the mainly Kurdish southeast.

The Syrian opposition would reject any deal struck by Russia and the US that was very different from its own proposed transition plan.

Aid groups expect more than 200,000 people to flee Mosul in the early stages of the battle.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two bombings at a market in the Sadr City district that killed at least 42 people.

Law enforcement officials in Montgomery County were searching Monday night for a man suspected of fatally shooting six people and seriously wounding another person at three homes in towns outside Philadelphia earlier in the day.

An unexploded 250-kilogram World War II bomb has triggered a mass evacuation in Germany.

Hong Kong's highest-profile corruption trial opened the door on a world of fine wine, race horses and mistresses - exposing cozy ties between government and big business as protesters demanding free elections camped within view of the court.

A Chinese mother has been charged with human trafficking for allegedly conspiring with a doctor to sell her baby boy for more than $A8000, media have reported, the latest case highlighting the country's lucrative child market.

A South African court acquitted Briton Shrien Dewani on Monday, clearing him of charges he paid hitmen to kill his wife while on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.

Two American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a Taliban bomb on a NATO convoy near the US Bagram Airbase north of Kabul, a US defence official says.

When the so-called Islamic State began preparing for war in Iraq, it targeted the country's Sunni tribal leaders. One American was counting.

Brasilia: Brazilian President Michel Temer was charged with obstruction of justice and racketeering on Thursday, according to a statement posted on the prosecutor general's office website.

Mick Fanning has missed out to Brazilian Gabriel Medina for the world surfing title, but fellow Aussie Julian Wilson has won the Pipeline Masters.

Twenty-four people are stuck near the top of of a 24-metre rollercoaster in Maryland in the United States, after the ride stalled.

New Jersey judge rules Canadian-born Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is a "natural-born citizen" and may run in the state's primary elections in June.

Slow-moving Typhoon Hagupit has weakened as it churns across the central Philippines islands, easing fears of widespread mass destruction, but officials warn the storm could still bring severe flooding to the low-lying capital Manila.

Australia is the worst-performing developed nation when it comes to climate-change action, a survey by European non-government organisations shows.

New York's top prosecutor seeks the power to probe all police killings of unarmed civilians in his state, following two grand juries' moves to clear officers in the deaths of unarmed black men.