BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra plans to seek the release of two Thai activists jailed in a Cambodian prison during her one-day official visit to Phnom Penh on Thursday, Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul…

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Hackers on late Friday afternoon hijacked an account belonging to NBC News on the social networking website Twitter and posted fake news alerts about a terrorist attack in New York City.

The false messages on the verified Twitte…

MANCHESTER (BNO NEWS) — Riots and widespread looting spread to parts of Greater Manchester in northwest England on Tuesday evening as violence continued in England for a fourth day.

The unrest in Manchester city began on late Tuesday afternoon before…

ZACATECAS, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) — The mayor of a municipality in Zacatecas, Mexico and a livestock rancher were killed after being kidnapped on Wednesday, officials said Thursday.

Fortino Cortes, Mayor of Florencia de Benito Juarez, which is located in …

FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — A Pakistani man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in their neighborhood in the province of Punjab, the Express Tribune reported on Thursday.

Arif Mubashir …

CAIRO (BNO NEWS) — The trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for allegedly ordering the killing of anti-government protesters will be held in Cairo on August 3, a key judicial official said on Thursday.

The Egyptian Gazette reported that …

VERACRUZ, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) – The body of Mexican journalist Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, who had disappeared on Sunday from the Gulf coast city of Veracruz, was found dead on Tuesday, the non-governmental watchdog Reporters without borders said.

Ordaz…

CUERNAVACA, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) — A U.S.-born teenager, 14-year-old Edgar Jimenez, was found guilty in a Mexican juvenile court on Tuesday on charges of torturing and beheading at least four people and kidnapping three others, officials said.

Jimenez, …

CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) – Seventeen people were killed on Monday evening when two rival group of prisoners clashed inside a prison in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, officials said on Tuesday.

City spokesman Manuel del Castillo Escalante…