Syrian singer pays tribute to her homeland in debut show

Syrian-born singer Faia Younan holds a debut show in the Jordanian capital, dedicating her performance to her war-ravaged country.

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Six days trapped, Kenyan woman freed from collapsed building

Kenyan rescue workers in the capital Nairobi free a woman who had been trapped under the rubble of a residential building that had collapsed six days earlier. Mana Rabiee reports.

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Can Saudi end its oil ‘addiction’?

Reuters Senior Correspondent Angus McDowall sits down with John Sfakianakis, former adviser to Saudi Arabia’s government and director of economy at the Gulf Research Centre, to dissect the Saudi prince’s sweeping economic plans to end ‘addiction’ to oil.

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Bangladesh Islamist party leader to hang for war crimes

The leader of the top Islamist party in Bangladesh Motiur Rahman Nizami could hang at any time, lawyers say, after his final appeal is rejected by the Supreme Court.

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Fort McMurray fire rages on, brings "serious loss"

Canadian fire officials say a massive wildfire burning in Alberta threatens to reduce the city of Fort McMurray to "ash", in what's shaping up to be Canada's costliest natural disaster. Mana Rabiee reports.

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Apple loses fight over iPhone name in China

A Chinese accessory company won a lawsuit with Apple for the right to use the name "iPhone" on its leather bags and phone cases. Paul Carsten explains how Chinese companies get away away with swiping brand names.

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Exclusive: Russia's underworld hacking trade

Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. Technology Correspondent Eric Auchurd looks at what the discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts means.

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