The regional government in the Spanish province of Valencia confirmed on Friday almost 3,000 hectares of woodland had been destroyed by four wildfires in the region over the past 48 hours.
The shooting massacre at a nightclub on Sunday in Orlando, Florida was the 176th mass shooting which happened in the United States in the past 168 days so far in 2016, according to the group Mass Shooting Tracker.
The waterfront building in an upscale part of Stockholm was meant to showcase one of the world's most famous prizes.
People in northern Japan have been warned to stay away from mountain forests after four people were killed in a spate of bear attacks, amid a dramatic rise in the number of sightings of the animals.
The Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya's Sirte launched on Sunday three suicide car bombing attacks against presidential guards, according to a military official.
The Sri Lankan government Saturday rejected claims that not much has been done to assist families affected by the 30-year war.
Ride-hailing firm Uber has been fined 900,000 U.S. dollars in France for using non-professional drivers between February 2014 and July 2015, local media reported Friday.
Papua New Guinea's embattled prime minister has survived another move to oust him from office as police and anti-government protesters clash, spilling over into widespread rioting and looting in the nation's capital.
A collective that calls itself OurMine boasted that it had broken into a handful of his social media accounts, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Screengrabs posted by Engadget showed the hackers notifying Mr. Zuckerberg of the breach using his own Twitter account. Bold move.
Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe apologized to the public Monday following the results of a probe into allegations he misused public money in violation of the political funds law, but stated that he himself had not intentionally done anything illegal although the funds may have been "misused."
Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near Caracas' presidential palace on Thursday, the latest street violence in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.
Almost exactly two years ago, Iraq's second biggest city, Mosul, was overrun by the forces of so-called Islamic State (IS).But since then, the city's university, has remained open most of the time.
A small boy was found alive on Friday after spending six days in a remote mountainous area in Hokkaido, northern Japan, according to local police and search and rescue officials.
Wildlife authorities in Thailand have said they will press charges against a Buddhist temple where the bodies of 40 dead tiger cubs were found.
Asean needs a complete transformation to achieve its potential and speed up the pace to be one of the brightest stars of the Asian century.
One month after the introduction of an official reporting requirement for Zika virus, authorities have registered 12 cases of the disease in Germany, local media reported on Wednesday.
Fifty members of a hacking ring were arrested on suspicion of stealing over 1.7 billion rubles (over 25 million U.S. dollars) from Russian bank accounts, said the authorities on Wednesday.
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