Gunmen attacked the African Union's main base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday, leading to an exchange of gunfire between militants and soldiers that killed at least nine people, including three soldiers, an official with the mission in Somalia said.
After an hourlong trek through mine shafts twisting 700 meters below ground level, Yevgeny Kachel lies on his stomach as he plows a drill into a seam of coal.
The foreign ministry of Belarus, which has been hosting Ukraine peace talks, says the much-anticipated round of negotiations on Friday has been scrapped.
Europe will be "vulnerable" if it does not regard viruses as a "national security issue" like the United States, the microbiologist who discovered Ebola said in an interview published on Friday.
The Indian Army on Friday said that it would intensify its operations against Bodo militants, who killed over 80 people in the northeastern state of Assam on Tuesday.
It was just before 8 am on Dec 26, 2004. The sky was blue, and Jamaliah was hanging clothes on the line while her three kids were inside watching TV on a sleepy Sunday. In a second, everything changed.
As towering waves hit the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Dec 26, 2004, Kushil Gunasekera gathered up his children and ran for their lives to a nearby temple, the highest point they could find.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea says it likely will have no "physical reaction", just condemnation, to the release of the film The Interview, which depicts the fictional assassination of top leader Kim Jong-un.
British Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute in her annual Christmas Day broadcast on Thursday to the "selflessness" of medical staff and aid workers fighting the Ebola epidemic.
Protests flared into early on Thursday in the St. Louis suburb where a white policeman fatally shot a black man who brandished a gun at a gas station on Tuesday night.
What do two world leaders do when they find themselves on the same Hawaiian island on Christmas Eve? If you're US President Barack Obama and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, you round up a few aides and make common cause on the golf course.
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