There were no fire alarms at first, no knocks on the door from the crew, just thick, acrid smoke filling cabins and waking passengers on the overnight ferry from Greece to Italy.
Newly released official papers show that former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's government considered rebuilding Britain's chemical weapons arsenal in the face of a perceived Soviet threat in the early 1980s.
Arab UN delegations on Monday endorsed a Palestinian proposal to forge a peace deal with Israel within a year and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017, despite fierce Israeli and US opposition.
Even after Washington pointed the finger at the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for a massive cyberattack on Sony Pictures, some experts say the evidence is far from clear cut.
The UN General Assembly voted unanimously on Monday to ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine new information about the mysterious plane crash that killed former UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo in 1961.
A healthcare worker recently back from Sierra Leone was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday by doctors in Scotland's largest city, the first diagnosis of the deadly virus in Britain during the current outbreak.
A Christmas lockdown in northern Sierra Leone aimed at preventing new Ebola infections in the country with the world's most cases ended on Monday.
An unarmed black man killed by Los Angeles police officers was shot three times, including once in the back at close range, according to his autopsy report released on Monday.
Two men opened fire on a police car patrolling a tough part of Los Angeles, but the two officers inside were not injured and one was able to shoot back, authorities said on Monday. One of the suspects was later arrested and the other is on the loose.
Egypt's top court is due to hear an appeal on Thursday by three jailed Al-Jazeera journalists as expectations of their release grow amid a thawing of Cairo's ties with Qatar, the channel's base.
Militants set fire to two primary schools in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Tuesday as authorities extended winter holidays amid threats of attacks, officials said.
At least 289 people have been evacuated to safety from an Italian-flagged automobile ferry that caught fire in the Adriatic Sea, the Greek authorities said on Monday.
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