Bangladesh police stormed a militant hideout just outside Dhaka Saturday, shooting dead three Islamist extremists, including the suspected mastermind of an attack on a cafe that killed 22 mostly foreign hostages last month.
The explosion that left one dead and 12 others wounded late Sunday night in the southern German city of Ansbach was intentionally carried out by a 27-year-old Syrian refugee, authorities said early Monday.
The Islamic State-related Amaq news agency, citing a source, said Saturday an IS "soldier" executed the attack in Nice, France, on Thursday in response to the group's call to target the anti-IS alliance.
Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia’s remote north have died, scientists said on Monday, with climate change the likely cause.
A group of suicide attackers targeted a provincial court in the eastern Ghazni city, leaving four people dead and injuring a judge on Wednesday, provincial police chief Aminullah Omarkhil said.
Torrential rain and hail have left nine people dead and hundreds of thousands affected in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, authorities said on Tuesday.
Twelve miners have been confirmed dead and another was injured after a gas outburst occurred in a coal mine in northeast China's Jilin Province on Sunday, rescuers said on Monday.
Authorities in Nepal's western Kaski district said they have started handing over the identified dead bodies of Tara Air crash victims to their families after the postmortem.
At least six people have been shot dead in a random serial shooting in Kalamazoo City in the southern part of the U.S. state of Michigan late Saturday night.
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is dead, Afghan officials confirmed on Friday.
Road traffic accidents had killed 34 people and injured 147 others in Cambodia during the celebrations of Pchum Ben, or honoring-the-dead festival, from Oct. 10 to 12, the National Police reported on Tuesday.
Police in Russia's Komi Republic are investigating the legal status of a group formed on Russian social networking site VKontakte (VK) dedicated to collecting selfies taken with dead bodies.
Four people have been confirmed dead after a building in southwest China's Guizhou Province partially collapsed on Sunday morning.
Death toll in snowstorm and avalanche that occurred in Mustang and Manang districts have continued to rise Wednesday, according to authorities.
Philippine military staged an attack on Abu Sayyaf militants in southern Philippine province of Basilan on Thursday, leaving at least five people dead, including three Abu Sayyaf members, a security official said Friday.
Fire broke out near a bus terminal in Goyang, a city just north of South Korea's capital city of Seoul, leaving at least six people dead and 24 injured, YTN and Yonhap News Agency reported Monday.
At least 170 dead pigs have been retrieved from a river in northwest China's Qinghai Province, local authorities said on Wednesday afternoon.