Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said the country will hold early national elections on Jan 25, after lawmakers failed to elect a new president in the third and final round of voting.
Japan ordered the slaughter of 42,000 chickens on Monday as officials announced the country's second bird flu outbreak in less than a month.
Lithuania hopes joining the eurozone on Jan 1 will boost its security, but many in the Baltic state fear the currency switch will also bring price hikes.
Three members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, who had been sent to reinforce border police, were killed in an attack in the southeast of Iran near Pakistan, according to Iranian media reports on Monday.
Thousands of police officers, state troopers, sheriff's deputies and others from law enforcement agencies big and small across the United States gathered at the New York City funeral of a police officer killed along with his patrol partner in a daytime ambush a week ago.
Heavy snowfall and freezing conditions in the French Alps left about 15,000 drivers stranded overnight into Sunday, forcing many to pass the night in their cars and prompting officials to open emergency shelters.
Malaysia pledged more funds on Sunday to help more than 160,000 people hit by the country's worst flooding in decades, as forecasters warned fresh rain could hamper efforts to relieve thousands left stranded by the waters.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages as people in Pyongyang once again found that Web and 3G access was paralyzed amid bickering between the United States and the Asian country over an earlier cyber attack on Sony Pictures.
Twenty-four people are dead and eight others are missing due to floods and mudslides caused by incessant rain in Sri Lanka during the past week, officials said on Sunday. About 106,000 people have lost their homes or evacuated to safer locations, the disaster management center said
Critics and early viewers agree that The Interview is less than a masterpiece. But thanks to threats from hackers that nearly derailed its release, it has become an event.
Russia on Thursday offered sympathy to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea amid the Sony hacking scandal, saying the movie that sparked the dispute was so scandalous that Pyongyang's anger was "quite understandable".
Like tens of thousands of Cubans, Gerardo Luis wants to get to the United States and he's suddenly worried that time may be running out.
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