Brussels will stay at the highest security threat level for another week over fears of an imminent terror attack, the Belgian government said, as the United States issued a worldwide travel alert for its citizens.
A bomb exploded outside the offices of a Greek business federation in central Athens early on Tuesday, smashing windows but causing no injuries, police officials said.
The black pearl of Tahiti is at the heart of French Polynesia's economy but is now highly vulnerable to climate change, and its fragile existence underlines - in a small but exquisite way - what is at stake in UN climate talks starting in Paris this month.
As darkness falls, vigilantes armed with automatic rifles emerge to patrol the streets of Bujumbura, a city plagued by killings and violence as Burundi's crisis deepens.
Attorneys for a 14-year-old Muslim boy arrested after the homemade clock he took to his Dallas-area school was mistaken for a possible bomb said on Monday that he was publicly mistreated and deserves $15 million.
As many as 170 people have died in rain-related incidents in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in the past two weeks, a government official said on Tuesday.
A northern white rhinoceros, one of just four left on Earth, died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park after suffering from a bacterial infection and age-related health issues, zoo officials said.
Australian scientists drilling into the Pacific Ocean seafloor have discovered that distinctive rocks formed after the Pacific tectonic plate changed direction and began to plunge under the Philippine Sea Plate about 50 million years ago.
Conservative opposition candidate Mauricio Macri, the mayor of Argentina's capital, won the country's presidential election on Sunday.
Belgian police arrested 16 more people in late-night raids in a search for those behind the deadly Nov 13 attacks in Paris, but failed to find a prime suspect as the government locked down the capital for a third day on Monday.
Australian officials said on Monday they were aware of 12 men or boys in the community who they believe could commit an act of terror, as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull convened a national security meeting to discuss further ways to deal with violent extremism.
Hopes dimmed on Monday for 100 people still missing two days after a landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar.
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