The son of Muammar Gadhafi is unlikely to face a firing squad anytime soon, though he was convicted and sentenced to death on Tuesday on charges of murder and inciting genocide during the country's 2011 unrest.
Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel, will be released on parole on Nov 21 after 30 years in prison, a federal parole board ruled on Tuesday.
An Afghan official said on Wednesday his government is examining claims that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar is dead.
In the steamy Baghdad night, sweat poured down the faces of the Iraqi teens as they marched around a school courtyard, training for battle against the Islamic State group.
When Estefanie Ferraz went to prison, she had been living as a woman for about a decade, had undergone more than half a dozen plastic surgeries that included breast and cheek implants to enhance her feminine looks, and was saving up for a sex change operation.
Turkey and the United States have agreed on the outlines of a plan to rout Islamic State militants from a strip of Syrian territory along the Turkish border - a plan that opens the possibility of a safe haven for tens of thousands of displaced Syrians but one that also sets up a potential conflict with US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces in the area.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is scheduled to speak out against "corrupt money from around the world" being laundered through real estate in Britain in a speech the will make during a trip to Southeast Asia on Tuesday.
The Greek government and its international creditors began work on a mammoth new bailout on Monday overshadowed by revelations that Greece's former finance minister had been secretly planning for a parallel system of liquidity.
Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak sacked the country's No 2 leader and the attorney general on Tuesday as part of a major Cabinet reshuffle seen as an attempt to firm his hold on office amid corruption allegations.
A British politician resigned from the House of Lords on Tuesday after a tabloid newspaper published footage of him allegedly snorting cocaine with prostitutes. Lord John Sewel, 69, apologized for the "pain and embarrassment" he had caused after the Sun newspaper published pictures of him as he chatted to two sex workers.
A British newspaper said it has uncovered a royal security breach by using an inexpensive app to track Prince William's air rescue ambulance while it is in the air.
Demonstrators blocked Lebanon's main Mediterranean coastal highway on Sunday to protest against a garbage collection crisis in the capital of Beirut that led the prime minister to threaten to resign.
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