Police ‘mishandled’ evidence in Pistorius murder case

The officer who arrested Oscar Pistorius on the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed last year testified Friday that police at the crime scene mishandled evidence, including a ballistics expert who handled the murder weapon without gloves.

Gunmen kill scores in central Nigeria

Gunmen killed more than 100 people in an attack on three villages in central Nigeria, an area where longstanding disputes over land, religion and ethnicity often erupt into violence, two local government officials said on Sunday.

French court sentences Rwandan army captain for 1994 genocide

A French court on Friday sentenced a former Rwandan army captain to 25 years in prison for genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity in the first-ever trial in France over the 1994 atrocity.