Rousseff takes stand in impeachment trial

Suspended President Dilma Rousseff was scheduled to make a last stand in Brazil's Senate on Monday in an impeachment trial that is widely expected to remove her from office and end more than a decade of rule by her Workers Party.

IS bombing against Yemeni recruits kills 65

A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 65 people on Monday at an army recruitment center in Aden, in the latest jihadist attack to hit the Yemeni city.

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Muslim extremists stage mass jailbreak

Muslim extremists who support the Islamic State group staged a daring jailbreak in the southern Philippines, freeing 23 detainees in the latest in a series of mass escapes, officials said on Sunday.

Volunteers give kiss of life as Vientiane road tolls mount

"Look at me, stay with us," the paramedics shout as a barely conscious motorcyclist is bundled into a volunteer ambulance in the Laotian capital Vientiane, where rampant drink driving brings nightly carnage to the roads.

Countdown starts to possible third election in a year as economy faulters

The clock starts ticking on Wednesday toward what could be Spain's third national election in a year when acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces a confidence vote in parliament for a second term in office.

Japanese jet aborts test flight twice after takeoff

Japan's new passenger jet on Sunday aborted a test flight to the United States for the second time in two days because of an air conditioning defect, its maker said.

Singapore confirms 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika

Singapore authorities have confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus, which in Brazil has been linked to a rare birth defect, and said more cases were expected to be identified.

Grief erupts as country honors, buries quake dead

Mourners in Italy prayed, hugged, wept and even applauded as coffins carrying victims of the country's devastating earthquake passed by at a state funeral on Saturday, grieving as one nation after three desperate days of trying to save as many people as possible.

Children come to terms with trauma

Inside a shady tent in the middle of quake-hit Amatrice, a little girl hunches over a table drawing a picture of the soaring mountains overlooking this small Italian town.

40 killed in Syria as shelling and raids hit civilians

Turkish shelling and airstrikes killed at least 40 Syrians on Sunday, a monitor said, in the first significant civilian casualties in Turkey's intensifying campaign in northern Syria.

Supporters of Rousseff insist suspended president broke no laws

The final witnesses in the defense of suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff testified late on Saturday in her senate impeachment trial, days before a vote that could permanently remove her from power.