Christa Pike’s lawyers on Saturday said that the 50-year-old convicted murderer has been discharged from the hospital and returned to prison. Pike was transported to the hospital in critical condition on September 30 after she survived Tennessee’s botched effort to execute her…

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Indian police detained the head of the satirical “cockroach” online movement on Saturday, the group said, ahead of a major protest against the Election Commission that prompted strict security measures. “They seem to have seen that coming,” notes France 24’s…

Police in Durban were battling a fresh wave of anti-migrant unrest. Shops were looted, homes were torched and foreign nationals were targeted as crowds took to the streets for a second day. The violence has revived fears of rising xenophobic…

Tests have come back negative for a person suspected of having Ebola who was reportedly in quarantine at a hospital, following rumours circulating over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, in Nairobi, authorities are racing to trace contacts of Kenya’s first…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday postponed legislative elections due next month until September 11, ​2027, and called ‌a presidential poll for the same date, blaming Israel and the security situation in the Palestinian territories for the ⁠delay. Our correspondent…

Most of the political world is focused on next month’s midterm elections in the US. “It does look like the Republicans will lose control of the House of Representatives,” says our guest, Bruce Stokes, a visiting senior fellow at the…

French prodigy Paul Seixas claimed his first Monument win at the Giro di Lombardia on Saturday. The victory makes the 20-year-old the fourth-youngest winner of a Monument race.

Early Saturday, Russia targeted residential neighbourhoods in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia with “five guided aerial bombs”, according to Ukraine’s National Police. At least 15 people were killed, including three children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. The family of a…