Suspected Islamist militants have hacked to death a leading gay rights activist and a friend in an apartment in the Bangladeshi capital.

At least 10 protesters and a policeman have been killed in unrest in Egypt as the country marks the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, officials say.

It is not just the clinical detail of the brutality of American agents that makes the US Senate report on the CIA's torture shocking, it is how chaotic and in the end, pointless, the entire program proved to be.

Joey Rovero was just five months from graduation. It was December of 2009 and the healthy, handsome, athletic Arizona State University senior had finished his second-to-last semester. It was time to blow off some steam.

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The TV host said sorry for her “meanness masquerading as edgy humour” after vicious tweets the then-supermodel sent to other celebrities in 2011 were unearthed.

"If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in," said Clinton on Tuesday.

Defeating IS and retaining influence in the Middle East is more important to Russia than in propping up dictator, analysts say.

Panic erupted in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday as Boko Haram fighters poured into two strategic towns in pre-dawn strikes that escalated into battles with Nigerian army troops.

Demonstrators calling for a military coup occupied Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday, as anti-austerity protests continue in Rio.

It was a sinister moment in a campaign already replete with ugliness. And it put the spotlight back on Donald Trump.

The central promise of the Trump administration has failed and the central premise of the administration has been discredited.

After an election riven with religious tension, Pence struck an odd note by comparing Indonesia to the US.

On the 10th anniversary of the Boxing Day Tsunami that killed 226,000 people in 13 countries LINDSAY MURDOCH visits Khao Lak, the worst hit beach in Thailand.

The body of an Iraq War veteran suspected of fatally shooting and stabbing six family members in Pennsylvania was discovered on Tuesday following a two-day manhunt, a district attorney said.

Ali Elamine's behaviour in negotiations over his half-Australian children led one person to describe him as "pretty face, ugly heart".

German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago.

China's President Xi Jinping has visited a drizzly Macau for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hub's return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas – the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.

Singaporean voters may accept change after all three of the island nation's prime ministers have had Chinese roots.

Asher Keddie, Germaine Greer and Alan Jones are among those who have thrown their support behind two Australians facing the death penalty in Indonesia, in a powerful star-filled video calling for mercy.