A senior United Nations official on Monday urged Israel to exercise restraint in its search for three missing teenagers it accuses the Hamas Islamist group of kidnapping, while warning the Security Council that violence in the region could escalate.
The world's oceans need saving from pollution and overfishing, and an independent panel warned on Tuesday that urgent action was needed within five years.
Ukraine's new Western-backed president faced pressure on Tuesday to negotiate with top rebel commanders after a surprise turnabout in which insurgents agreed to a truce and talks on ending their uprising.
An epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now "out of control" with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF, said on Monday.
Syria removed the last of its chemical weapons arsenal from its territory on Monday, completing a deal reached last September to rid the war-torn country of government-owned chemical weapons materials.
Federal authorities conducted a sweep through more than 100 US cities and recovered 168 children from child sex trafficking, the FBI said on Monday.
A Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of a former minister saying the ruling party had settled the debts of a rival candidate in the 2005 presidential election in exchange for his withdrawal from the race.
Sri Lankan police announced on Sunday that they will not allow rallies or marches inciting religious and communal hatred in the future, a week after Buddhist mobs attacked minority Muslims in deadly violence that was condemned by the international community.
22-year-old soldier shoots himself but survives after deadly rampage
Shooting rampages against fellow soldiers happen occasionally in South Korea.
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