Construction giant Mitsubishi Materials Corp became the first major Japanese company to apologize for using captured US soldiers as slave laborers during World War II, offering remorse on Sunday for "the tragic events in our past".
A small vessel believed to be carrying asylum seekers was seen off Australia's remote west coast on Monday, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported. It is the first sighting in two years of a boat carrying refugees close to shore.
A US airstrike killed 10 Afghan soldiers on Monday at an army checkpoint in a Taliban-infested province, officials said. It is the latest "friendly fire" incident involving foreign coalition forces.
On Monday, for the first time since 1961, Cuba's red, white and blue flag flew over Havana's newly upgraded embassy in Washington, just a stone's throw from the White House.
Greek banks reopened on Monday after a three-week shutdown imposed to stop a run on ATMs from crashing the financial system.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is launching a five-year plan to defeat Islamic extremism, saying it's time to counter the ideology that has attracted so many young people to the Islamic State group.
Chaos erupted as security forces ushered former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre into and then out of the Senegal courtroom where he is being tried on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
At least 28 people were killed on Monday in an explosion in the center of the Turkish town of Suruc near the border with Syria, local television reported.
Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it had foiled planned Islamic State attacks in the kingdom and arrested more than 400 suspects in an anti-terrorism sweep.
Hundreds of shoppers thronged the reopened Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Saturday, nearly two years after an extremist attack there left 67 people dead.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday a landmark nuclear deal won't change his country's policy toward the "arrogant" US, making his first public speech since the Islamic Republic's historic pact with six world powers.
A wildfire that swept across a busy California freeway, sending people running for their lives, was calmed by rain on Saturday.
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