World / Americas

Beyonce, Easter Bunny highlight Obama’s final egg roll 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama high five each other after reading Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" to...

Twenty-five Cubans reach Florida island 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Cubans attend a concert by the UK rock band The Rolling Stones at Ciudad Deportiva in Havana, Cuba, on March 25, 2016. AFP...

Obama unlikely to meet Erdogan during US visit 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

President Barack Obama is not expected to hold sit-down talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he visits Washington later this...

Cuba’s Fidel Castro knocks sweet-talking Obama after ‘honey-coated’ visit 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Tourists take pictures inside a state run market where a picture of Cuba's former president Fidel Castro is seen on the wall which...

Secret Service closed White House fence lines during Capitol shooting 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

The US Capitol dome is seen through skylights in the Vistor's Center in Washington, in this file photo taken January 2, 2013. Gunshots...

Leader of Nigeria’s ruling APC party criticises petroleum minister 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, appointed both head of the state oil firm and minister of petroleum last year by President Muhammadu Buhari to oversee...

UN chief regrets Morocco ‘misunderstanding’ over West Sahara remark 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Tunisian Assembly President Mohamed Ennaceur (R) shakes hands with World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim (L) and UN chief Ban Ki-moon as they...

Cameroon delays quizzing of bomber claiming to be Chibok schoolgirl as doubts mount 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Boko Haram released a video of the kidnapped schoolgirls last year, where they appeared reasonably fit and well in a wooded location, followed...

Turkey, US agree Cyprus deal possible this year 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during a press availability at the State Department in Washington, DC...

Burundi, Morocco troops accused of C.African Republic abuse: UN 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Rwandese peacekeeper in UN missio, South Sudan. AFP By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said on Monday it had...

Brazil party set to abandon Rousseff, eyes presidency 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech during meeting with a group of jurists and lawyers who came to the Planalto Palace in...

Suspected US Capitol gunman wounded and captured: police 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

This file photo taken on March 22, 2016 shows a Capitol Police officer watches from the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. The...

Turkey summoned German ambassador over satirical report: Spiegel 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Erdogan has harshly criticised Western diplomats after several showed up on Friday to support Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and his...

Several months and millions of dollars later, New Zealand votes to keep its flag 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

New Zealand All Blacks fan Brett Plumer nails a national flag to his house in Auckland September 9, 2011 ahead of the Rugby...

Clinton to push Trump, Republicans on US Supreme Court fight 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON: Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will assail the prospect of a Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Supreme Court justice on Monday, her...

Protests as China's Xi arrives in Prague 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C-L) and Czech President Milos Zeman poses for media at Lany chateau, Czech Republic, 28 March 2016. China's President...

A Van Gogh seized by the Bolsheviks remain in America 29 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Undated photo courtesy Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut shows impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh's 1888 oil on canvas "Le cafe...