People in the remote Myanmar community where soldiers killed at least five unarmed civilians say they are disappointed by the punishment, even though convictions of military personnel for human rights violations are virtually unprecedented.
A much-anticipated Mideast outpost of the Louvre now has its first director, but visitors will have to wait until next year to visit the new art museum.
It was no surprise that Vladimir Putin's United Russia party took the lion's share of votes in Sunday’s parliament elections, but the real suspense was in whether any genuine opposition would make it into the mix and if a repeat of the 2011 protests over voter fraud would resurface.
India's top court has directed the government to respond to an Italian marine's plea to continue to stay in Italy during arbitration over the 2012 fatal shootings of two Indian fishermen in which he and a fellow marine are implicated.
Berlin officials say a well-known member of the city's Pirate Party was found dead in his apartment along with the body of another man and that homicide detectives are investigating.
The United Nations says at least two people have been killed after attacks on the headquarters of five opposition political parties in Congo late Monday.
The spokesman of a Libyan city municipal council says authorities are investigating the abduction of three foreigners working for a maintenance company near the border with Algeria.
Libyan medics say a helicopter crashed near the eastern city where the internationally-recognized parliament is based, killing all six people on board, including the military adviser of a powerful general.
Israel's military said its troops shot and killed a knife-wielding Palestinian on Tuesday who tried to stab a soldier near the West Bank city of Hebron.
State-owned Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil production company, says eight of its workers have been injured in a fire that broke out at one of its oil terminals.
French authorities have made eight new arrests in connection with the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead, the Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
A Cambodian court has sentenced two Chinese nationals to life in prison after convicting them of production and trafficking of heroin and methamphetamine in one of the country's biggest drug trafficking cases.
A Thai official says the helmsman who operated a passenger boat that sank over the weekend has been arrested for violating navigation laws as the death toll climbed to at least 27 people.
The Indian army says Pakistani troops fired bullets at an Indian military position in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir two days after suspected rebels killed 18 Indian soldiers in an audacious attack on a military base.
