Paleoanthropologists working in Africa have discovered stone blades more than a half-million years old. That pushes the date of the earliest known blades back a remarkable 150,000 years and raises a question: What human ancestor made them? Not long ago,...

The UN aid agency in Gaza says it has suspended all relief shipments after hundreds of tonnes worth of food aid were seized by the Hamas government. Ten truckloads of flour and rice were taken from the Palestinian side of...

At least 84 children have died in Nigeria after ingesting a teething formula tainted with a thickening agent normally found in brake fluid, the health ministry says. The ministry issued a statement saying 111 children have been sickened since the...

One of Britain's most wanted criminals has been arrested in his home country of Hungary. Dennis Hunter, 58, was being hunted in connection with a major VAT fraud, which is thought to have cost the Treasury around £250m. The suspect,...