Malaysian officials said the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was likely hijacked by someone with flying experience, which is why police were scouring the homes of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid over the weekend.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russia's AK-47 assault rifle designer who died on December 23, 2013, said before he died that the pain he felt fearing he was to blame for the deaths caused by his weapon was "unbearable,"
Assailants shot and killed a popular soap-opera actress and former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear along with her 39-year-old ex-husband Henry Thomas Berry in front of their 5-year-old when they resisted a robbery attempt, authorities said on Tuesday.
10 Indian men are in custody after a 21-year-old woman was raped by two apparently unrelated groups of men on Christmas Eve, BBC News reported. She is being treated and is reportedly in stable condition.
Recently freed after serving more than ten years in a Russian jail, former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky appealed to western governments to help him campaign for the release of other political prisoners.
Actor-activist Sean Penn told The Associated Press in an email on Tuesday that Jacob Ostreicher, the New York businessman held in Bolivia since 2011, was safe and receiving medical care in an undisclosed location in the United States
Part of a roof in the Apollo Theatre in central London has collapsed during a packed performance of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, BBC News reported. An eyewitness at the theater said she heard "a crackling" noise before the "roof just crumpled" at about 8:15 p.m. on Thursday evening. Another eyewitness said the "entire dome roof" had fallen on audience members who were seated in the stalls
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ordered an inquiry into Singapore's first riot in four decades concerning the reliance on foreign workers in the city state, Bloomberg reported."There is no excuse for such violent and criminal behavior," Lee said in a statement on Monday.
Ukrainian police began dismantling protest in front of government buildings in Kiev, BBC News reported on Monday. An opposition party also said that the police also raided their headquarters, and protesters said they were given until Tuesday to leave the grounds. Opposition leaders, however, urged supporters to defend Independence Square
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved the deployment of African and French troops to the chaotic and war-ravaged Central African Republic, CNN reported. The council also voted to impose an arms embargo on the nation.
The Italian Senate voted to expel former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from parliament, largely due to his tax fraud conviction. The 77-year-old Berlusconi could soon face arrest over other criminal cases after he lost his immunity from prosecution
Death by stoning for convicted adult adulterers may soon be written into Afghan law, a senior official said on Monday, Reuters reported. "Men and women who commit adultery shall be punished based on the circumstances to one of the following punishments: lashing, stoning [to death]," article 21 of a draft of the new penal code
North Korea confirmed to Swedish diplomats that it is holding 85-year-old Merill Newman of Palo Alto, California, and that he has been detained in the country since October 26
At least 51 people are known to have died when the roof of a supermarket in Riga, Latvia collapsed on Thursday night, BBC News reported. Rescue efforts have continued through Friday, as Latvian police launched a criminal investigation into the collapse
French police have taken a man into custody on suspicion of carrying out recent gun attacks in Paris, prosecutors said, as reported by BBC News. The suspect opened fire at the "Libération" newspaper in Paris, and also reportedly attacked the headquarters of Societe Generale
Wreckage is seen at the site of a Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crash at Kazan airport November 18, 2013. A Boeing 737 airliner crashed on Sunday in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people on board and spotlighting the poor safety record of regional airlines that ply internal routes across the world's largest nation
The Toronto city council voted to strip Mayor Rob Ford of most of his authority, but the city leader continues to resist the pressure to step down from office, BBC News reported. The council transferred most of Ford's budget to the deputy mayor.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi death camp, to pay tribute to Holocaust victims. Between 1940 and 1945, 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, died in gas chambers or from disease, forced labor or starvation at Auschwitz.
A gunman, said to be between 40 and 45, shaven-headed and overweight, attacked the offices of the newspaper "Libération" and fired outside the headquarters of the Societe Generale bank in Paris, France on Monday, BBC News reported. A manhunt is underway throughout Paris to apprehend the gunman who critically injured a 27-year-old photographer at the newspaper's office. He was said to be a freelance assistant photographer who had recently joined the newspaper
A series of small explosions killed one person and injured eight others outside the provincial headquarters of the ruling Communist Party in Taiyuan, a city in Northern China, officials said. State media said the blasts, which occurred on Wednesday at about 7:40 a.m. were caused by homemade bombs
