The co-founder of the California-based rock band Eagles of Death Metal, whose Paris concert was targeted in a deadly attack by militants this month, said in an interview with Vice posted on Wednesday that he came face-to-face with a gunman backstage.
The white Chicago policeman charged with murdering a black teenager he shot 16 times spent his first full day in custody on Wednesday in a jail hospital ward, as calm prevailed in a city braced for civil unrest over new video footage of the slaying.
A German federal state said on Wednesday it had transferred details of secret Swiss bank accounts with assets worth nearly $4 billion to Athens, as part of efforts to clamp down on Greek tax cheats.
A mother who left her newborn son in a manger at a New York City church will not face criminal charges for giving him up, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that from Moscow's point of view, Turkey is deliberately trying to bring relations between Moscow and Ankara to a standstill.
Qatar's only directly elected body is to vote on introducing family-only days at major shopping malls in a move dubbed a "bachelor ban" that is likely to restrict access for foreign laborers.
Seoul office worker Park Sun-min constantly checks his smartphone for updates on an insect apocalypse, ghost soldiers haunting the inter-Korean border, and a supermarket worker's struggle to form a trade union.
Outside, acrid smoke from wood fires stings the eye, the stench of uncollected garbage and neglected toilets assaults the nose, and an autumn wind chills the bone. But inside Mimi Amanuel's immaculate wood-framed shack, the nightmare life of Calais' migrant camp cannot overpower a woman's dreams.
A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest.
"I came from my room to see what was happening. I saw the fire and ran outside," said Dawit, a 13-year-old Ethiopian boy living in a Swedish center for asylum seekers.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a nationwide state of emergency and a curfew in the capital after a bomb attack on a presidential guard bus killed at least 12 people on Tuesday.
One of Pakistan's few female fighter jet pilots was killed in a training crash on Tuesday, the air force said in a statement, adding that she was the first of its women pilots to "embrace martyrdom".
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