LONDON / AP President Barack Obama on Saturday urged the next generation of British leaders to give serious thought to how they solve problems, turning a light-hearted question about priorities for his successor into a treatise on his preference for diplomacy over military conflict. Obama said keeping US citizens safe is his top priority and he suggested that it …

  Washington / AFP Eight members of one family, including a teenager, were shot dead in rural Ohio, just before gunmen killed five people in Georgia. In Ohio, seven bodies were found at three houses close to eachother and an eighth was later found at a separate site, Sheriff Charles Reader told reporters. The victims were “all adults except for …

  Juba/ AFP South Sudan rebel chief Riek Machar eas expected to miss an international deadline on Saturday to return to the capital to take up the post of vice president, the government said, with his arrival now expected next week. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged Machar to return to Juba “without delay”, while the US, Britain and Norway—key …