The Paris terrorist attacks seem likely to compel US President Barack Obama to consider a military escalation against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by the Islamic State group, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris' worst attacks.
Kurdish forces said they had secured strategic facilities in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Friday as part of an offensive against Islamic State militants that could provide critical momentum in efforts to defeat the jihadist group.
A US drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", according to US officials.
The party of Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar's parliament, the election commission said on Friday, giving it enough seats to elect its chosen candidate to the presidency when the new legislature convenes next year.
For thousands of years, Mongolia's Dukha ethnic minority have depended on their reindeer herds to survive the bitter winters. However, they say their nomadic way of life is now threatened by new government restrictions introduced on environmental grounds.
Omi Rahman Pial has changed homes five times in the last three months. He hasn't seen his young daughter in weeks and is afraid to be seen on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital and home to several grisly killings of secular bloggers like him.
Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam held an emergency meeting with his Security Cabinet and military chiefs on Friday as the nation mourned 44 people killed in a double suicide bombing.
Eighty-year-old Vincent Asaro threw his hands into the air and shouted "Free!" and grinned as he walked out of a New York City courthouse after his surprising acquittal on charges he helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist, a robbery portrayed in the renowned 1990 movie Goodfellas.
Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by US-led strikes launched a major operation on Thursday to retake the town of Sinjar from the Islamic State group and cut a key supply line to Syria.
European Union leaders offered African counterparts aid and better access to Europe at a summit on Wednesday in return for help curbing chaotic migration across the Mediterranean and promises to take back those Europe expels.
Montreal, Canada's second-largest city, began dumping untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday, angering environmentalists with a repair operation that could release as much as 8 billion liters of wastewater into a major waterway.
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