Algeria Thursday confirmed that the missing flight AH 5017 of Air Algeria with 116 people on board crashed in Mali, local media reported.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was placed under formal investigation for influence-peddling, on Wednesday said "politics manipulated judicial system" in a corruption probe that may taint the conservative's political come-back.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday expressed his disappointment after Japan were beat 4- 1 by Colombia in the last game of the Group C in the soccer Brazil World Cup.
The Thai military on Thursday staged a coup d'etat to overthrow an elected government and parliament and abolish the constitution following months of an unresolved political conflict.
At least 18 people were killed and more than 60 others injured after a passenger train derailed in western Indian state of Maharashtra on Sunday, state Home Minister RR Patil said.
A new extremist Islamist group called Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) has claimed responsibility for a series of blasts that rocked the area outside Cairo University on Wednesday.
French President Francois Hollande on Monday named Interior Minister Manuel Valls to head his new "fighting" executive team, replacing Jean-Marc Ayrault after the Socialists suffered a severe setback in local elections.
U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have developed a new vaginal gel that might help protect women from HIV even it's applied three hours after sex.
A Chinese hospital official involved in a baby trafficking case has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for dereliction of duty, a court announced on Friday.
A Chinese court will announce its verdict on Friday for four former hospital officials accused of serious dereliction of duty in a baby trafficking c
Indian Minister Shashi Tharoor's deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar's son -- from her second marriage
Italy's former center-left head Pier Luigi Bersani has undergone a brain surgery that was "technically successful" after he suffered a surface brain hemorrhage, doctors at a hospital in Parma said on Monday.
According to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC), China's moon rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), worked in stable condition following its restart after a "nap" on Friday night.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the famed Russian AK-47 assault rifle, died on Monday in his home city of Izhevsk, an industrial town 1,300 km east of Moscow, local media reported.
Oil prices dropped on profit- taking Monday after making considerable gains last week.
The Singapore government raised its growth forecast for the economy to between 3.5 percent and 4 percent on Thursday.
A Yemeni court began Sunday a trial of nine suspected al-Qaida members accused of plotting to assassinate President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi by a roadside bomb on his motorcade, the official Saba news agency reported.
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