Otago Daily Times: World News

Suspected Islamist militants have opened fire on a school in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing nine students, witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the US government's top-secret surveillance programmes, is fighting back against his critics and has denied allegations that he was a spy for China.

From Union Jack booties to "Born to Rule" sleepwear, the British royal family has joined retailers in offering baby products to mark the arrival of the royal heir.

Allegations a teenage girl beheaded her father with a bush knife after he raped her will be investigated, Papua New Guinea police say, amid reports community leaders are protecting her.

The search for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, missing since 1975 and thought to have been murdered by members of organized crime, brought investigators with shovels to an overgrown field in suburban Detroit, not far from where Hoffa was last seen alive.

Vladimir Putin's opponents often brand him a "thief" at street protests. Now the Kremlin is dismissing an American football team owner's account of how the Russian president ended up with his diamond-encrusted Super Bowl ring when they met eight years ago.

Harley-Davidson riders from around the world have descended on St Peter's Square in Rome for a blessing by Pope Francis to mark the 110th anniversary of the iconic US motorcycle maker.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, arriving in Britain ahead of an international summit set to be dominated by disagreement over the US decision to send weapons to Syria's rebels, said the West must not arm fighters who eat human flesh.