Dozens of people were killed or injured Tuesday when two rockets struck the main university of Syrian northern Aleppo city, activists and local media said, as mortar shells rained down districts of the capital Damascus, killing one person and injuring others.
Up to 17 people were killed and 133 wounded in two bomb attacks targeting offices of Kurdish parties in northern Iraq on Wednesday, the police said.
Two people were injured in a shooting incident at a high school in the U.S. state of California on Thursday morning, and the shooter is now in custody, local police said.
The horrific Connecticut elementary school shooting has reignited the debate over gun control in the United States but at the same time gun sales have increased dramatically in the country.
Eurozone unemployment rate hit a fresh record of 11.8 percent in November of 2012, up from 11.7 percent a month earlier, the statistics office of the European Union (EU) said Tuesday.
Two assassins of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were Sunday honored by a senior Sikh clergyman at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, northwest India, to mark the 24th anniversary of their hanging, local media reported.