Maduro Sworn In As Venezuela's President

Venezuela Says Farewell To Chavez Updated: 6:16am UK, Saturday 09 March 2013 A state funeral has taken place for Venezuela's left-wing president Hugo Chavez at a military academy where his body has been lying in state since Wednesday. Most Latin American...

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Kenya's Presidential Race 'Won By Kenyatta'

Kenya's electoral commission says voting results indicate Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has won the presidential election. Mr Kenyatta, who faces international charges of crimes against humanity, won the poll with a slim margin of 50.03% of the...

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Port Said Riot: 21 Fans Sentenced To Death

An Egyptian court has upheld death sentences on 21 Port Said football fans for their role in a stadium riot last year. Some 74 people were killed and around 1,000 injured at the end of a match between Cairo's Al Ahly and Al Masry, the local side, on...

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Hugo Chavez: World Leaders To Attend Funeral

Hugo Chavez: A Revolutionary's Life Updated: 9:14am UK, Wednesday 06 March 2013 Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias was born on July 28, 1954, in the rural town of Sabaneta in western Venezuela. He was the son of schoolteachers and the second of six brothers....

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Amnesty: North Korea Prison Camps 'Expanding'

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent North Korea is expanding its existing prison camps and "blurring the lines between the camps and the surrounding population", according to Amnesty International. The organisation has collated satellite images which...

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India Rape: Girl Kidnapped And Attacked

By Alex Rossi, Asia Correspondent A three-year-old girl is in hospital recovering from serious injuries after she was kidnapped and gang raped in southern India. The girl is currently under observation in intensive care. She was sleeping beside...

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Bolshoi Acid Attack: Dancer Paid Perpetrator

A leading dancer has admitted ordering an attack on the Bolshoi ballet chief, but said he did not mean for him to be splashed with acid. Police say Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko paid 50,000 rubles (£1,080) for artistic director Sergei Filin to...

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Hugo Chavez Dies: Election In Four Weeks

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died at the age of 58 after losing his battle with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro fought back tears as he announced the death in a national television broadcast. He said Mr Chavez, who had been in power for...

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Hugo Chavez: A Master Of The Spotlight

Venezuelan Leader Hugo Chavez Dies Updated: 7:30am UK, Wednesday 06 March 2013 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died at the age of 58 after losing his battle with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro fought back tears as he announced the death...

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Bolshoi Acid Attack: Mastermind's Confession

A ballet star at the Bolshoi Theatre has confessed to being the mastermind of an attack on the theatre's ballet chief, according to police. Moscow police said Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has been suspected of planning the attack, had now admitted being...

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Syrian Soldiers In Iraq Killed In Ambush

At least 42 Syrian soldiers and a number of Iraqis have been killed after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen The Syrians had sought refuge in northern Iraq during clashes with rebels close to the border earlier in the week. Iraqi authorities...

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Baby Death Hit-And-Run Suspect Named

A baby delivered by doctors after his parents were killed in a hit-and-run car crash in New York has died, a community spokesman has confirmed. Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, died in the crash in Brooklyn but their baby initially survived after...

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Woman Dies After Nurse Refuses To Perform CPR

A retirement home in California has defended a nurse who refused pleas by an emergency call operator to perform CPR on an elderly woman who later died. At the beginning of the call, the nurse - who did not give her full name - asked for paramedics to...

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Japan: Family Killed As Car Is Buried In Snow

Four members of a family have been killed after their car was buried in a snowstorm in the main northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Four other deaths linked to the weekend's snowfall have been reported. Kazuyo Miyashita and her three children died...

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HIV Baby: Doctors Say Infected Girl 'Cured'

A baby girl born with HIV has been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy, researchers say. The child, from Mississippi in the US, is now two-and-a-half years old and has been off HIV drugs for about a year with no signs of infection....

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India: Twelve Children Die In School Bus Crash

At least 12 children have been killed after their school bus collided with a truck carrying bricks in northern India. The crash, which also killed the driver, happened on the outskirts of Jalandhar, a city nearly 250 miles (400km) north of the capital...

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Mokhtar Belmokhtar: Gas Terror Chief 'Killed'

Belmokhtar: Profile Of Mr Marlboro Updated: 12:54am UK, Sunday 03 March 2013 By Sam Kiley, Middle East Correspondent He was known as Mr Marlboro because of his cigarette smuggling. The French intelligence service called him "The Uncatchable"....

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UK Explorer: Green Campaigning Has Failed

By Tom Rayner in Ushuaia, Argentina One of Britain's leading polar explorers has told Sky News that decades of campaign efforts to get people engaged with climate change have failed. Robert Swan, who was the first man to walk to both the North...

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Assad Hits Out At UK Government In Interview

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has heavily criticised the British government, calling it "shallow and immature". In an interview with The Sunday Times, he dismissed any suggestion that Britain could help to resolve the conflict saying: "We do not...

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