Four Russian cruise missiles aimed at targets in Syria crashed in Iran, a US official said on Thursday, as Syrian troops pressed a "vast offensive" against rebels in the war-torn country's west.
The crush of stampeding people during the hajj pilgrimage last month outside of Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca killed at least 1,399 people, a new tally released on Thursday showed - 630 more than the kingdom's official toll.
An Israeli man stabbed four Arabs on Friday morning, police said, as spiking tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank threatened to spread throughout Israel.
The Toyota Hilux compact pickup truck has been the most commonly stolen vehicle in the past two years in Sydney, and authorities said they were being shipped in containers to Turkey and then into Syria to be used by extremists, media reported on Friday.
US airman Spencer Stone, celebrated as a hero for helping to stop a terror attack on a French train over the summer, was stabbed and seriously wounded outside a bar in his hometown early on Thursday in what police said was an alcohol-related brawl.
Officials say one person is dead and three others are wounded following an early morning shooting at Northern Arizona University.
Spain's "Red Duchess" capped off an unconventional life by marrying a much younger woman just hours before her death in 2008 - and making out her will to her new spouse.
European Union governments agreed on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants and discussed creating an EU border force, among other measures, to cope with hundreds of thousands fleeing Syria or other countries.
Corals reefs are suffering a severe underwater heat wave this year for the third time on record, including a mysterious warm patch in the Pacific known as "The Blob", scientists said on Thursday.
From the first case solved thanks to a fingerprint in 1905, to the ropes used to hang prisoners, a new show in London displays hundreds of exhibits previously kept under wraps by Scotland Yard.
NATO said it was prepared to send troops to Turkey to defend its ally after violations of Turkish airspace by Russian jets bombing Syria.
Several Iraqi Kurdish troops tested positive for mustard gas after battles this summer with the Islamic State group in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the paramilitary group said on Wednesday.
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