Turkish authorities were on Tuesday holding six people over the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara by an off-duty policeman, as Russia urgently sought answers over the murder.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that authorities believe a deadly rampage by a lorry driver at a Berlin Christmas market was a terrorist attack likely committed by an asylum seeker.
Paris sought on Tuesday to reassure the public about safety during year-end festivities after a suspected militant attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, saying security forces were working round the clock to prevent such violence.
Without backing up his claim, US President-elect Donald Trump is blaming Islamic terrorism for deadly violence in Turkey and Germany and vowing anew to eradicate their regional and global networks.
It has been a record year for Italian coast guard, with nearly 180,000 people rescued in the Mediterranean, longer days than ever before and, despite their efforts, thousands of victims.
A 3-year-old boy being taken on a shopping trip by his grandmother was killed in a road rage shooting when a driver opened fire on the grandmother's car because he thought she "wasn't moving fast enough at a stop sign," police said.
Long before Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian there was Zsa Zsa. No last name needed.
A rainbow-headed snake, a tiny frog and a lizard with dragon-like horns are among more than 150 new species confirmed by scientists last year in the ecologically diverse but threatened Mekong region, researchers said on Monday.
Was 2016 a dream or a nightmare?
Brief hearing is the first public appearance in weeks for woman dubbed the 'female Rasputin'
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