Six Molotov cocktails were flung into a bustling summer samba street festival in Tokyo on Sunday (Aug 7) night, wounding 15 people including a one-year-old girl.
The unsolved investigation of the 1971 hijacking of a Seattle-bound airliner and the disappearance of the enigmatic, dapper suspect dubbed D.B. Cooper, is now officially one for the history books, not the FBI.
An armed and masked man has been shot dead by German special police officers after storming a cinema complex in Viernheim, in the Hesse region.
Traffic in the heart of Sydney was brought to a standstill on Friday morning, after a man got out of a taxi and started to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
A police officer shot on Friday afternoon a man who had been involved in a domestic dispute with a woman outside the Dallas Love Field Airport, and the man was sent to hospital for medical treatment.
"This is how racism falls". These are the words of a Saudi man who attended the wedding of his relative, a Saudi bride who married a non-Saudi groom.
The Chinese firm behind a detergent commercial featuring a black man crammed into a washing machine who emerges as a light-skinned Asian has apologised after the commercial went viral overseas and was held up as an example of Chinese prejudices.
Belgian police on Monday issued a new appeal for information about "the man in the hat" caught on security camera footage along with two others thought to have blown themselves up in the Brussels Airport on Tuesday last week.
A man in Indian state of Maharastra killed 14 members of his family before committing suicide at his house on Sunday, police said.
This year's first confirmed case of the H7N9 avian influenza virus was reported by Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection on Tuesday.
A Melbourne man has reportedly caused public transport "pandemonium" with a bag of fish and chips and a throng of hungry seagulls.
A man who made the "empty threat" to join the Islamic State (IS) and bomb Singapore has been ordered to undergo 24 months of mandatory treatment for multiple mental conditions by the court, local media reported Monday.
Illegal drugs valued at 1.5 million NZ dollars (957,000 U.S. dollars) were found hidden inside two neck pillows carried by a man travelling from Hong Kong to Wellington, New Zealand Customs officers said Wednesday.
Britain's counter-terror police on Sunday searched a residential address in east London following "a violent unprovoked knife attack" at a subway station on Saturday.
A stabbing at a Tube station in east London is being treated as a "terrorist incident," the Metropolitan Police said.
Five males aged 16 to 24 were arrested in dawn raid in Sydney on Wednesday in relation to the fatal shooting of an employee outside New South Wales police headquarters last Friday.
Thai military apprehended on Tuesday a suspect in the recent bombing attack at Erawan Shrine in downtown Bangkok, said Winthai Suwaree, spokesman of the National Council for Peace and Order.