A small plane crashed into a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo on Sunday, killing the pilot, a passenger and a woman on the ground, while three people were pulled alive from the wreckage, officials said.
A car bomb struck a military vehicle in southeast Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding four others in an attack blamed on Kurdish rebels, authorities said on Sunday, a day after Turkey launched airstrikes against Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ordered on Saturday a halt to airstrikes against the FARC rebels, giving a major boost to stop-start peace talks.
US President Barack Obama delivered a firm message on gay rights during his landmark visit to Kenya on Saturday, where homosexuality is outlawed.
John Russell Houser was deeply troubled long before he shot 11 people in a movie theater in Louisiana, but decades of mental problems didn't keep him from buying the handgun he used.
Saudi King Salman and an entourage of 1,000 arrived on Saturday for a vacation on the French Riviera, where more than 100,000 residents have petitioned against the closure of the public beach outside his villa.
At least 20 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack carried out by a 12-year-old suicide bomber at a bar in Maroua in the far north of Cameroon, state TV said on Sunday.
Omkarnath spends his days searching New Delhi for drugs. A call to the phone number printed boldly on his saffron-colored tunic reveals his alternate identity: "Hello, I am Medicine Baba."
The world's first malaria vaccine got a green light on Friday from European drugs regulators who recommended it should be licensed for use in babies in Africa at risk of the mosquito-borne disease.
Turkish warplanes struck Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria on Friday, government officials said, a day after IS militants fired at a Turkish military outpost, killing a soldier.
Thailand said on Friday that it would indict 72 people, including a senior army officer, over human trafficking after the grim trade in migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh rocked the Southeast Asian region.
The Korean Air chief steward ejected from a flight by a senior airline executive in the now infamous "nut rage" incident has filed a lawsuit in New York demanding compensation for assault and emotional distress.
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