A member of the Afghan junior women's national volleyball team was recently beheaded by the Taliban, with her coach saying that gruesome photos of her severed head were plastered on social media.
There's a little bit less magic in Christchurch, New Zealand after its municipal council moved to close the book on its contract with its official wizard of over twenty-three years.
Following the flame lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday, human rights activists are urging nations to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing this upcoming February over the country's human rights abuses.
Rooney’s characters tend to be left-leaning. In her book Normal People, the main characters attend an anti-Israel rally during the conflict in Gaza in 2014.
Desperate to feed her family, Saleha, a housecleaner in western Afghanistan, incurred a debt of $550 that her lender will write off if she hands over her 3-year-old daughter, Najiba.
"The early investigation has revealed a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism."
Amess "was treated by emergency services but, sadly, died at the scene," said police.
North Korea warned of capitalist cultures' "hell-like horror" where "only money matters."
The Leicester East MP has been suspended from the Labour Party, and has vowed to remain in her seat as MP while she appeals the conviction against her.
Knights of Al-Aqsa Mosque is a videogame that has players “liberate Palestine” and kill Israeli soldiers.
The attacks occurred in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg on Wednesday.
Virginia Giuffre claimed to be a trafficking victim in 2001 when she was 17 and allegedly forced to have sex with Prince Andrew in London.
“Incidents where a prisoner uses incorrect pronouns for another prisoner will be considered on a case-by-case basis..."
On the anniversary of Taiwan's founding, the island's president delivered a defiant address to her people standing firm against Chinese President Xi Jinping, vowing Taiwan would not "bow to pressure" from the mainland.
"This is the bloodiest attack I have seen in my life."