Germany agrees to compensate families of victims of an alleged neo-Nazi cell accused of killing 10 people over a decade in a case which shocked the country.

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Pay-out over ‘neo-Nazi’ killings

Laser beams are shone into the cockpits of two planes carrying in total more than 240 people over Devon and Cornwall.

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Laser beams shone at two planes

A Pakistani military court convicts seven people over an attack on army headquarters in 2009, sentencing one retired soldier to death.

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Seven guilty of Pakistan attack

Officials in Brazil say they have arrested 19 police officers on suspicion of belonging to a vigilante group accused of killing dozens of people over the past decade.

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‘Vigilante police’ held in Brazil

The World Food Program had ceased operations in the tribal region of Bajaur following an attack that killed 46 people over the weekend.

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Pakistan Food Program Set to Resume

Slate has released its annual ranking of 80 of the world’s most powerful people over 80 years old. New to the top 10 of the 80 Over 80: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Clint Eastwood. Thomas S. Monson, 83, the president of the Mormon Church and as such…

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The Most Powerful Octogenarians

Police in Bangladesh arrest 11 people over an arson attack on a village in an Indian enclave.

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Bangladesh police arson arrests

A senior UN official says the systematic rapes of some 300 people over four days in DR Congo “defy belief”, as a preliminary UN report is released.

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DR Congo mass rapes ‘defy belief’

The president of the Philippines says investigators have recommended charging at least 12 people over a bloody bus hijacking last month.

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Officials blamed in Manila hijack

Cuba announces the end of the cigarette subsidy for people over 55 in the communist state’s latest attempt to reduce spending.

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Cuba ends elderly smoking subsidy