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
