Three people, including a minor, were being held on Sunday in the slaying of a newly inaugurated mayor just hours into her term in a gang-troubled central Mexican city.
Patrick, a premature baby weighing a minuscule 1.2 kilograms, was "saved" by a breast milk bank in South Africa, where child mortality is high despite being the continent's most developed economy.
On New Delhi's roads on Saturday, it was the turn for private car owners with even number plates. The exercise, part of the government's formula to fight rising pollution levels and improve air quality in India's capital city, seems to be going well.
A drowned 2-year-old boy became the first known migrant casualty of the year on Saturday after the crowded dinghy he was traveling in slammed into rocks off Greece's Agathonisi island, the coastguard said.
Nigeria on Friday unveiled a nine-meter tall statue of Jesus Christ carved from white marble, thought to be the biggest of its kind in Africa.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on Saturday toured communities ravaged by flooding that killed at least 31 people in several states and forced large-scale evacuations, as the danger of rising waters shifted to Arkansas and beyond.
An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-normal incidents of death and cancer among residents in and around Naples, thanks to decades of toxic waste dumping by the local Camorra mob.
Somalia's elegant colonial villas were left in ruins by two decades of street fighting among warlords, and the seaside capital Mogadishu was dubbed the most dangerous city in the world.
Gunfire and blasts were heard on Sunday at an Indian Air Force base attacked by militants a day earlier, as security forces hunted two gunmen still at large in the sprawling facility near the border with Pakistan.
A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia's national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the West have deteriorated in recent years.
The mayor of a city south of Mexico's capital was shot to death on Saturday, less than a day after taking office, officials said.
French investigators found jihadist propaganda material on Saturday in the computer of a man who drove his car into troops guarding a mosque in France on New Year's Day but said it did not prove he had links with any terrorist groups.
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