A Malaysian Airlines plane made an emergency landing at the major airport of Australia's second largest city of Melbourne on Friday, but no casualties were reported yet.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Thursday a policeman to 15 years in prison over the death of a female protester during a leftist march earlier this year, official MENA news agency reported.
The first hearing in the trial of China's most wanted economic fugitive Yang Xiuzhu took place in a New York immigration court on Tuesday.
The White House press room was evacuated over a bomb threat after a phone call alerted the Metropolitan Police Department, said White House Spokesman Josh Earnest Tuesday.
The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship that capsized on the Yangtze River has climbed to 97, the Ministry of Transport said Friday.
Police in the east U.S. coastal city of Boston are searching for a third man in conjunction with a terror case, after police had shot and killed the first suspect Usaama Rahim on Tuesday, U.S. media reported on Thursday.
"I'm fine," a Chinese girl studying in South Korea told her families on Wednesday, trying to cool down their anxiety as rampant MERS closes schools and sees more masked faces across the streets in the Asian country.
The number of South Koreans diagnosed with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) kept rising to 35 Thursday since the first patient was tested positive on May 20, the health ministry said.
Moscow is "deeply concerned" about the recent situation in eastern Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
The Zurich cantonal police of Switzerland reported on Tuesday that hundreds of litres of formaldehyde, a toxic liquid, leaked from a lorry carrying hazardous merchandise in the Uetliberg motorway tunnel, south of Zurich on A3.
At least five bomb threats were reported on Tuesday against flights of five airliners leaving or landing in the United States, U.S. media reported, citing government sources that the threats were not deemed credible.
At least 12 people were feared dead Tuesday when a blast went off in a livestock market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, capital of the restive Borno State, a security source and witness said.
Russian air defense systems manufacturer Almaz-Antey Tuesday denied its involvement in the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine last July, saying Western sanctions against the company are unjustified.
Fears for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reached a peak in South Korea as the first two deaths and tertiary infection were reported Tuesday.
An oil tanker truck exploded Monday in a bus station in the southern Nigerian state of Anambra, killing at least 69 and wounding dozens of others, Nigerian Red Cross said.
A summit of East African leaders over Burundi crisis has urged a postponement of the country's elections, with the opposition "disappointed" as the issue of whether President Pierre Nkurunziza should run for a third term was not discussed.
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