'Blade runner' serves less than one year in jail

Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's double-amputee "Blade Runner", was released on parole on Monday after serving less than 12 months of his five-year sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013.

Worker diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer

A former Fukushima nuclear plant worker has been diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer, Japanese authorities said on Tuesday, the first such confirmation more than four years after the worst atomic accident in a generation.

Hacker breaks into personal e-mail account of CIA director

An anonymous hacker claims to have breached CIA Director John Brennan's personal e-mail account and has posted documents online, including a list of e-mail addresses purportedly from Brennan's contact file.

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Up to 70 Japanese lawmakers visited the notorious World War II-linked Yasukuni shrine on Tuesday, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ritual offering.

Assailant kills soldier in bus station

An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a monthlong wave of violence.

Storm kills 16 people; thousands stranded

A typhoon swept across the northern Philippines killing at least 16 people as trees, power lines and walls were toppled. But tens of thousands of people were evacuated as floodwaters engulfed large areas..

Separated families gather for rare reunion

Three hundred and ninety-four residents of the Republic of Korea, many of them elderly and nearly all in a state of fevered anticipation, gathered on Monday before crossing into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for a rare reunion with separated family members.

Campaigners call for two marine sanctuaries

Campaigners on Monday urged global leaders to put aside differences and create two vast marine sanctuaries in Antarctica to protect one of the world's last untouched wildernesses.

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Balkans pressed by desperate crowds

The Balkans faced a growing buildup of migrants on Monday, with thousands massing in the cold and dampness after the closure of Hungary's southern border diverted them to Slovenia.

Poll: Trudeau with big lead over Harper

Canadians began voting on Monday to decide whether to extend Conservative leader Stephen Harper's near-decade in power or return the country to its more liberal roots.

Three decades on, fan returns stolen Patti Smith items

Thirty-six years after her tour truck was stolen, rock legend Patti Smith was moved to tears as a fan returned a bandanna from her late brother and other items thought to have been inside the stolen truck.