A police officer and a soldier were killed by a roadside bomb in Egypt's northern Sinai peninsula Saturday, security sources said. The bomb was detonated remotely when the victims' armoured vehicle passed by during a security operation, the sources said. There was no immediate claim of...

Boko Haram's leader is urging his fighters to "kill, slaughter and abduct ... and detonate bombs everywhere," in a new video that denies Nigerian government claims that his militant extremist group has been crushed. President Muhammadu Buhari declared last week that soldiers had driven Boko...

Greece's ambassador to Brazil was murdered in a plot hatched by his Brazilian wife and her police officer lover, who confessed to the crime, officials said. The envoy, Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was killed on Monday by the officer, Sergio Gomez Moreira, Rio homicide division chief Evaristo Pontes...

"Biggest", "hugest", "most ever". Analysts are piling up the superlatives as China prepares to splash out astronomical sums for footballing talent during the winter transfer window in deals that analysts say involve more money than sense. Last year Chinese teams broke the Asian transfer...