Around 100 passengers on board a Qantas Airways regional jet have been evacuated via the plane's emergency slides upon landing in west Australia after the crew noticed fumes inside the cabin.
Cheers erupted as lights slowly began to flicker on across Puerto Rico overnight as the U.S. territory struggled to emerge from an island-wide blackout following a fire at a power plant that caused the aging utility grid to fail.
A court in Peru acquitted on Thursday 52 Amazon natives for the murder of 12 police officers seven years ago during protests against laws that indigenous groups said facilitated the usurpation of their lands for oil and timber development.
The Syrian regime announced the start of a new offensive on the city of Aleppo Thursday, ignoring calls to stop bombing civilians, a senior administration official told Fox News Thursday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's two top aides are apologizing and are repaying a portion of the $207,000 Canadian (US$157,000) in expenses they incurred in moving to Ottawa from Toronto.
Roman Catholic Church officials in Mexico are pleading for the life of a priest who was kidnapped from his parish residence one day after two other priests were killed.
President Francois Hollande has bestowed a Legion of Honor award on a French-American who was among passengers who stopped a gunman on a high-speed train in 2015, and was wounded after grabbing his assault rifle.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has named his longtime ally, the speaker of parliament and Putin's chief of staff, to head the country's foreign intelligence service.
An Algerian man who fled house arrest in France following his conviction in a terror-linked case has been arrested in Switzerland while seeking asylum.
During an interview with The Associated Press, Syrian President Bashar Assad made several denials, insisting that the city of Aleppo is not under siege and that Syrian and Russian aircraft did not carry out a strike on an aid convoy.
Libyan officials say a team of five Italian investigators has arrived in a town near the Algerian border where two Italians and a Canadian were abducted at gunpoint earlier this week.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday blamed efforts to combat terror in response to the Sept. 11 attacks for only widening the spread of global extremism and accused regional rival Saudi Arabia of flooding the Middle East with "hateful ideology." But in an otherwise somber speech, he cited Tehran's nuclear deal as an example of how diplomacy can resolve conflicts that could spiral into war.
