One of the Middle East's biggest carriers, Qatar Airways, has announced an agreement to purchase a 49-percent stake in Italy's second largest carrier, Meridiana.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has put on display the country's oldest papyruses, which date back 4,500 years, detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders.
The founder of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Saeed, has warned violence in Indian-ruled Kashmir will escalate in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.
A gunman's bullet has shattered the jaw of a newspaper editor in Lesotho, and the publisher faces defamation charges because of a column that satirized the military commander in the landlocked southern Africa country.
Italian media say a station master has acknowledged giving the green light to one of the commuter trains that collided head-on in southern Italy, but protests that he didn't bear sole responsibility for the crash that killed at least 23 people.
Authorities in Romania have formally detained 38 people on suspicion they took dozens of vulnerable men and boys as slaves, kidnapped them and chained them up, and forced them to work or fight each other for entertainment.
The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold and refrained from injecting more money into the economy, despite concerns over the economic impact of Britain's decision to leave the European Union.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has arrived at a camp of Burundian refugees to encourage the girls there to pursue their education despite the challenges they face.
Britain's new top diplomat is shaggy-haired, Latin-spouting Boris Johnson, who in recent months has made insulting and vulgar comments about the presidents of the United States and Turkey.
Nine people suffered bruises and cuts but no one was gored in the final running of the bulls at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, Spanish officials said Thursday,
Syria's President Bashar Assad has denied that his forces targeted U.S.-born journalist Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria in 2012 and says that he does not know how she died.
A suspected extremist being held at police station in western Kenya grabbed a gun and shot at police officers, killing four, leading to a hostage situation, an official said Thursday.
The United States, India and other countries continue to evacuate their citizens from South Sudan, where a fragile cease-fire appears to hold amid fears of a return to civil war.