At least 15 people were killed and 35 others wounded in a bomb attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
A Spanish court found on Tuesday that the driver of the train, which derailed and killed 79 people last Wednesday, was speaking on the phone when the accident occurred.
The public sector lags behind private companies when it comes to pay packages for older workers who are rehired, the labour movement said yesterday.
At least two people were killed and five others injured when a bomb went off outside a mosque in Pakistan's northwest Kohat district on Thursday afternoon, local Urdu TV channel Geo said.
At least 17 insurgents were killed as several others injured when army jets pounded suspected militants' hideouts in Pakistan's northwest tribal region of Kurram on Thursday, local media reported.
Eleven people were killed when a minibus collided with a roadster on Tuesday in Russia's Penza region, authorities said.