At least seven Al Shabaab fighters were killed after they launched an attack on high security prison in the capital Mogadishu, Somali presidency said.
Israelis and Palestinians on Wednesday both claimed "victory" in the Gaza war, one day after the long-term cease-fire came into effect.
Nineteen students and a driver were sent to hospitals after the school bus they were riding slammed into a tree in the U.S. city of Houston Tuesday morning, local media reported.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dissolved parliament on Monday and called for early elections on Oct. 26, as tensions were still running high in eastern Ukraine amid fighting between government forces and separatists.
A special plane carrying the remains of 20 Malaysian victims killed on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived Friday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport from Amsterdam, as Malaysia marked a national day of mourning.
At least 33 people were killed and over 40 others seriously wounded in the early hours of Friday as two buses collided on a highway some 50 km away from Red Sea resort city Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt's South Sinai province, a security source told Xinhua.
Five cult members stand trial Thursday morning on murder charges in Yantai Intermediate People's Court in east China's Shandong Province.
At least six people including three female teachers and two students were killed and several others were injured when a blast hit a school van in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Bajaur Agency on Tuesday morning, local media reported.
Asking prices of property coming to market decreased by 2.9 percent month-on-month in August, according to a survey from Rightmove Monday, marking the biggest fall the company has ever recorded.
A total of 6,017 people were punished for breaches of anti-bureaucracy rules in July, the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s discipline agency said Sunday.
Twenty people were injured after an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted Yongshan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province at 6:07 a.m. on Sunday, local authorities said.
Media reports that a Burkinabe from Liberia had died of the dreaded Ebola virus at the Bawku Government Hospital in the Upper East Region sparked fears among Ghanaians at the weekend.
According to a Japanese war criminal's confession published Monday, Chinese citizens were sent to the notorious germ warfare base Unit 731.
The death toll from super typhoon Rammasun has increased to 17 as of Sunday as one more person was confirmed dead in the island province of Hainan.
A new Israeli war jets airstrike on western Gaza city killed on Wednesday four Palestinian children and wounded ten others while they were on the beach of Gaza, medics and witnesses said.
Two people died at the scene and 32 were landed in hospital with injuries after a bus explosion in Guangzhou Tuesday evening, police said.
Dogs can feel jealous if they think you pay more attention to other dogs, a U.S. study said Wednesday.
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