Sydney's terror siege ended in tragedy early Tuesday morning with three dead - including the lone gunman - as police stormed the cafe.
Australia's heavily armed police raided a Sydney cafe under siege after a police sniper witnessed the gunman shoot a hostage, local media reported on Tuesday.
French anti-terror police on Monday dismantled a recruiting network for Syria jihad and arrested 10 people on allegations of sending nationals to fight alongside Islamist insurgents in the Arab-torn country, interior ministry said.
A gunman, who held an unknown number of people hostage in a downtown Sydney cafe on Monday, has been identified after five hostages managed to flee the hours-long siege.
Five hostages have been released from a Sydney cafe, which has been held siege by an armed man showing Islamic flags on Monday.
Australia has been put on a nationwide alert on Monday for possible terror threats after an armed man suspected of being related to radical Islamists took up to 40 hostages in central Sydney and forced part of the city into lockdown.
Six arrests were made as hundreds marched in Chicago on Saturday in protest of non-indictment of two police officers responsible for the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, two unarmed black men, over the past couple of months.
Tens of thousands of protesters across the United States took to the streets on Saturday to protest against two separate grand juries' decisions not to indict white officers involved in killing unarmed African-Americans during arrests.
Hong Kong authorities cleared occupy sites in Admiralty on Thursday and got the traffic in front of the government headquarters moving again before midnight.
Hong Kong police started to remove protesters who refused to leave the Occupy protest area in the commercial district of Admiralty on Thursday afternoon.
The three co-initiators of Hong Kong's Occupy movement turned themselves in to the police on Wednesday afternoon.
Kenyan police were on Wednesday interrogating two U.S. nationals who were arrested while taking pictures of key installations in Gilgil town, about 130km northwest of Nairobi.
A Taliban key commander Zarqawi and eight of his armed men were killed in air strikes in the eastern Nangarhar province with Jalalabad as its capital, 120 km east of Kabul late Monday night, police said Tuesday.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Tuesday 188 people to death over charges of murdering 11 police officers in 2013, state-run Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Wheels have been set in motion to make history in Sri Lanka after incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa called for snap presidential elections on Jan. 8 and sought a third term.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said here Monday that a series of polls have indicated that more and more HK residents demand an end to the Occupy Central Movement and he urged remaining protesters to leave the occupied sites.
The white police officer who killed black teenager Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, his attorney told CNN on Saturday.