King Salman of Saudi Arabia unexpectedly left the French Riviera on Sunday, local officials said, adding that a beach that had been controversially closed for the royal's holiday will now reopen to the public.
Traveling at speeds of up to 386 kilometers per hour, 164 skydivers flying head-down connected with each other to form the largest ever vertical skydiving formation on Friday over central Illinois, smashing the previous record.
On one of London's most exclusive streets, drivers of two expensive cars are getting ready to leave their parking spots.
At the stroke of midnight on Friday, tens of thousands of stateless people who were stranded for decades along the poorly defined India-Bangladesh border will finally get to choose their citizenship, as the two countries swapped more than 150 pockets of land to settle the demarcation line dividing them.
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United Kingdom said family members of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were killed in a private jet crash in southern England.
Rescuers were searching on Sunday for about 20 villagers feared killed in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in a remote region of northeastern India.
Two security force members were killed and 24 were wounded in a suicide bombing overnight by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, also known as PKK, in Turkey's eastern province of Agri, the local governor's office said in a statement on Sunday.
Investigators probing missing flight MH370 collected more metallic debris on an Indian Ocean island on Sunday as Malaysia urged authorities in the region to be on alert for wreckage washing up on their shores.
"It is my dream to become a soccer star and earn honor for my country one day," Massuma Mohammadi, 22, said at the national stadium in Kabul on Monday.
Sylvester Stallone is parting with memorabilia from the Rocky and Rambo movies, but is keeping the two characters alive on screen.
The discovery of plane debris washed up on a remote island in the southern Indian Ocean has rekindled efforts by family members of passengers on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight to seek greater compensation, aviation lawyers said.
Bangladesh and India prepared on Friday to swap tiny enclaves of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years.
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