NATO troops from the US arrived in Turkey on Friday to implement Patriot missile defence batteries on the border with Syria to protect Turkish towns after the Syrian army launched a series of Scud missiles against rebel held towns near the Turkish border.
The alleged drugging and gang rape of a 16 year old girl by leading players from the Steubenville High school american football team, and the rumoured cover up has divided the population of the Ohio town.
Abid Naseer, a suspected terrorist accused of orchestrating an al Qaeda plot to set off bombs in the centre of Manchester, has been extradited to the US.
Senior Pakistani militant leader Mullah Nazir has been killed by a US drone strike in the north-west tribal district of South Waziristan near the Afghanistan border, security officials say.
The internet is an often bizarre and wonderful place, where certain ideas, videos, and jokes go viral across the connected world showing just how much people enjoy pictures of cats amongst other things… Here’s our top 10 memes and videos of 2012