Gunshots killed three people and severely injured four others, including two gendarmes, at Roye, North France, French TV channel BFMTV reported Tuesday.
Australian authorities have rescued a 22-year old man after he was stuck inside a washing machine for three hours.
Fears of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have spread from South Korea to China on a combination of carelessness among individuals and medical staff, as well as the bungling of initial response by the South Korean government.
Beijing police detained a Malaysian man who robbed the Cartier store on Beijing's main shopping street Monday evening, police announced on Tuesday.
A man with a gun entered a studio of Dutch national broadcaster NOS in Hilversum on Thursday and was arrested shortly afterwards.
Beijing police have started looking into the case in which a foreign man and the ten Chinese children he adopted have gone missing, Beijing Morning Post reported Friday.
Powerful Typhoon Phanfone which made landfall in central Japan Monday has left at least 4 people dead and 5 missing, local media reported Tuesday.
One of the most awaited superstars at the ongoing Venice film festival, American actor Al Pacino was a solitary man who approaches the possibility of new love in a movie presented here in the competition section.
A Sydney man has been charged over alleged sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl, New South Wales Police said on Friday.
Hong Kong confirmed on Monday its first case of H7N9 bird flu as a 36-year-old Indonesian domestic helper has been hospitalized in critical condition.
Turkish interior minister said Thursday that the suspected suicide bomber who was arrested outside the prime minister office carries a "fake bomb" and is not a "terrorist," Today's Zaman reported.
Three people were fatally shot and two others were injured at an apartment complex in the U.S. city of Houston Wednesday afternoon, local media reported.
A 36-year-old man is holding 12 people hostage in the southwestern German city of Freiburg on Thursday evening, local police said.
Police in central China's Henan Province on Tuesday caught a man suspected of killing three and injuring 12 others in a knife attack on a bus.
Police arrested a violent armed man, who has been creating panic with firing in the red zone area of Pakistani capital of Islamabad for more than five hours on Thursday night, local official said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said there are strong indications that the attack in southeast London that killed one man is a terrorist incident, during a press conference in Paris on Wednesday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shot dead a man Wednesday who was possibly linked to the Boston bombings suspects, U.S. media reported.