A fire engulfed a coach of an express train in southern India on Saturday, killing at least 26 passengers, many of whom became trapped and suffocated after the doors failed to open, officials said.
Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police clashed across Egypt on Friday, leaving at least four dead in protests after the army-backed government declared the group a terrorist organisation.
A young Chinese man, who got lost in the mountains on the way up to Peikestolen in southwest Norway earlier on Friday, has been found and saved in a prompt search operation.
Outrage from Asian neighbors and world powers continued to grow on Friday over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a controversial shrine.
The Chinese Consulate General in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has urged local authorities to find the culprits who killed a Chinese man during a robbery.
Russia's Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, died on Monday at 94.
Verizon Communications Inc vowed to issue semi-annual reports on government requests for customer data.
A senior US official called India's foreign secretary in another attempt by Washington to tamp down the furor in India over the arrest and treatment of one of its diplomats in New York.
Some 88 people were injured, including 7 serious cases, after part of the roof in London's Apollo Theatre collapsed on Thursday.
President Vladimir Putin is to pardon one of his best known opponents, jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in what may be a gesture to critics of his human rights record before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics.
US President Barack Obama embarked on a trip on Monday with former President George W. Bush, leading a US contingent to attend a memorial service in South Africa for the late Nelson Mandela.
As a special representative of President Xi Jinping, Chinese VP Li Yuanchao will attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela.
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