A suicide attack on Istanbul's main pedestrian shopping street on Saturday killed five people, including two dual nationality Israeli-Americans and one Iranian citizen, and wounded several dozen others, in the sixth suicide bombing in Turkey in the past year.
Captured fugitive Salah Abdeslam initially planned to blow himself up outside the Stade de France during the Paris attacks but changed his mind, a prosecutor said on Saturday, after Europe's most wanted man was charged with "terrorist murder" for his role in the November assaults.
A bus carrying university students back from a fireworks festival crashed on Sunday on a main highway in northeastern Spain, killing 14 passengers and injuring 30 others, a Catalonian official said.
Eyeing a new future with the United States, Cubans are preparing their famed capital for a long-awaited visit by US President Barack Obama, who will make history when Air Force One touches down in Havana.
Beyond the public animosity, stark statements and a trade embargo, there is another side to US-Cuba relations: exploratory missions, discreet negotiations and hands extended - in hotel hallways, airport waiting rooms and even the Vatican.
Five days before arriving in Havana, US President Barack Obama lifted some of the travel, trade and financial restrictions on Cuba.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide said on Saturday it has signed three hotel deals in Cuba, a first for a US hospitality company since 1959 on the island.
Supporters of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called mass street rallies on Friday in her defense, counterattacking in a political crisis that threatens to drive her from office.
The largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the United States kicked off on Thursday in New York City, and for the first time in decades, gay activists were not decrying it as an exercise in exclusion.
Egypt has unearthed further evidence that a secret chamber, believed by some to be the lost burial site of Queen Nefertiti, may lie behind King Tutankhamun's tomb, Egypt's antiquities minister said on Thursday.
Last May, as the first cases of Zika were being detected in Brazil, cities at the frontlines of the epidemic stopped receiving government shipments of insecticide to kill mosquitoes.
Turkey's prime minister raised hopes of a deal with EU leaders to help stem the influx of migrants into Europe, but France and Germany warned of difficult talks as both sides grapple with how to send refugees back from Greece.
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