Another summer, another trip to the bottom of a sea for Russia's adventure-loving president.
Islamic State militants beheaded one of Syria's most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra, then strapped his body to one of the town's Roman columns, Syrian state media reported on Wednesday.
The first bodies of 54 people killed when a plane went down in eastern Indonesia were carried from the remote crash site on Wednesday after bad weather hampered efforts to airlift them.
Thailand's national police chief said on Wednesday that a deadly bombing at a central Bangkok shrine was carried out by "a network," as investigators focused on a man seen in a grainy security video leaving a backpack behind just 20 minutes before the explosion.
Thai police released a sketch on Wednesday of the main suspect in a bomb blast in Bangkok that killed at least 20 people, more than half of them foreigners.
A record 107,500 migrants crossed the European Union's borders last month, according to new figures, showing they are arriving in dramatically increasing numbers and creating a humanitarian crisis for the 28-nation bloc.
Soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years in a military prison for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, was found guilty on Tuesday of rules violations and given three weeks of recreation curbs, the American Civil Liberties Union said.
The Paris prosecutors' office says an investigation has been opened after one of the hostages in the January attacks around Paris accused some television and radio stations of having put his life in danger and sued them.
More than 70 leading international nuclear nonproliferation experts issued a statement on Tuesday showing their support to the full implementation of the Iran nuclear agreement, which aims to guarantee the peaceful nature of Teheran's nuclear program.
Moe Pwint Oo flashes the grimy punch bag a steely glare before slamming her fist into it.
Scientists say they have found evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave containing skeletal remains bearing terrible wounds.
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