A local village head said that the leader of the gunmen had demanded $119,000 from the villages as retribution after Nigerian ...

Officials in Nigeria say at least 85 civilians were killed when a military drone mistakenly targeted a religious gathering in ...

A British aid worker kidnapped last month in southern Nigeria has been killed, while three other hostages have been freed, says the Foreign Office. Ian Squire, an optician, was one of four Britons ...

Having paid a ransom three times to secure the freedom of his loved ones, Nigerian businessman Lawal Ado is not impressed by moves to outlaw payments to kidnappers. A controversial bill to ...

Gunmen from criminal gangs have killed 13 Islamic seminary pupils during a ceremony celebrating the birth of Prophet Mohammed in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state, a local official said Tuesday.

An autopsy report was released Sunday for 14-year-old Lyric Woods who was shot and killed in Orange County. According to the report, Lyric Woods was shot seven times near a power-line easement in ...

At least 14 people were killed when an apartment building in the Brazilian city of Recife, capital of the State of Pernambuco, collapsed. The structure had been closed in 2010 by the authorities ...

At least 14 migrants were killed in a fire in the town of Coronel, some 530 kilometers south of Santiago, in the region of Biobio, it was reported Monday. “Unfortunately, 14 neighbors of our ...

Despite a boycott call by the Maoists, villagers in Naxal-infested Bastar of Chhattisgarh turned out to vote in large numbers. Unlike the Indian cricket team in the World Cup, the Congress may ...

More than a dozen people are dead following a bus bombing in Syria's capital city of Damascus. Two explosive devices detonated on board a military bus during rush hour Wednesday, killing at least ...

Nov. 14 (UPI) --The family of Israeli-Canadian peace activist, Vivian Silver, who was initially believed to have been kidnapped alongside hundreds of hostages during the Hamas-led raid into ...