Rome's main Fiumicino airport reopened on Thursday after a fire that badly damaged the main international terminal building forced a closure for about 12 hours.
Voters were choosing a new Parliament for the United Kingdom on Thursday in an election that is expected to produce an ambiguous result, a period of frantic political horse-trading and a bout of national soul-searching.
The results of the British general election will not change current China-UK relations significantly, analysts and business leaders predicted.
The UK electorate heads to the polls on Thursday for the most unpredictable election in living memory, with fears of weeks of brinkmanship as the two major parties struggle to cobble together workable coalitions.
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for killing a homeless man with his SUV in a 2002 hit-and-run after a night out drinking at an upmarket bar.
Staff members at an Australian hospital's emergency department received a rather unusual late night visitor - a koala.
India will push ahead this week with plans to build a port in southeast Iran, two sources said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi keen to develop trade ties with Central Asia and prepared to fend off US pressure not to rush into any deals with Iran.
The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane into the French Alps after "rehearsing" the descent on an earlier flight, French investigators said on Wednesday.
Four Afghan men were sentenced to death on Wednesday for the lynching of a woman falsely accused of blasphemy, a landmark judgment in a nation where female victims often have little legal recourse.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the assault on a Texas cartoon contest that featured images of the Prophet Muhammad. But counterterrorism experts said IS has a history of asserting involvement in attacks in which it had no operational role.
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