Moments before performing in an outfit that showed off her legs and cleavage, she claimed she had tried to make herself less attractive.

Unelected. Unaccountable. And now under fire for a shabby, secret deal to censor the truth about the Iraq war, writes GUY ADAMS.

William, who is president of the Football Association (FA), spent time with each player in the 23-man squad discussing the match and what’s in store for Rio.

The men, aged 19 and 20, are being held in separate South London police stations where they are being questioned by anti terrorism officers.

Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was thrown in jail in September and was facing the death sentence – but Sudanese officials today changed their mind and announced that she would be released within days.

The distraught mother of one of the two girls gang raped and hanged in India has refused to accept any compensation from the government and demands her daughter’s rapists are sentenced to death.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release was part of a negotiation that includes the release of five Afghan detainees held in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sources said.

CLEVELAND (AP) — A nighttime car chase in Cleveland that ended on a schoolyard where more than 100 shots were fired at the suspect's vehicle appeared to be over when an officer opened fire again, a prosecutor said in announcing charges against the patrolman and five police supervisors.

BEIJING (AP) — When visiting friends in China's capital, environmental activist Wu Lihong must slip away from his rural home before sunrise, before the police officers watching his home awaken. He rides a bus to an adjacent province and jumps aboard a train just minutes before departure to avoid being spotted.

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's army seized power in a May 22 coup, the Southeast Asian nation's second in eight years. Here, four Associated Press correspondents who have been covering the crisis and the political turmoil leading up to it offer their insight into recent events: