Two people - a 70-year-old man and his 45-year-old son - were killed in a powerful typhoon that grazed the Philippines' northeastern tip.
It's called Beur FM radio - after a French slang term for Arab people - and has become the voice of France's Islamic community in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
It was a large house with three floors and freshly painted pale blue shutters that had just been built for a family of 17.
Iranian-allied Houthi fighters in Yemen accepted on Sunday a five-day humanitarian cease-fire proposed by their adversary Saudi Arabia but said they would respond to any violations.
A Cairo court sentenced Egypt's deposed president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison on corruption charges on Saturday.
A video taken by militants purports to show Taliban fighters with a surface-to-air missile, claiming they used a similar one to shoot down a Pakistani helicopter carrying diplomats.
The relationship between Denmark and China is flourishing in business, science, culture, and many other areas. But this is no huge surprise, it's a relationship that goes back hundreds of years, says Friis Arne Petersen, ambassador of Denmark in China.
Britain was adjusting to a new political landscape over the weekend after a shock election victory for Prime Minister David Cameron that decimated the opposition and bolstered secessionists in Scotland.
Pope Francis, who helped broker a historic thaw between the US and Cuba, spoke with Cuban President Raul Castro on Sunday as plans are laid for a trip to both countries in September.
Eight police officers died and dozens were wounded in a gunbattle in an ethnic-Albanian suburb of northern Macedonia that began on Saturday.
On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine a time when Liberia would be free from one of the world's deadliest viruses. It had swept through the 9-year-old's neighborhood, killing people house by house.
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