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President Obama applauds UN deal on Syria
1:57am President Barack Obama says a deal reached on a United Nations resolution to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons is "potentially a huge victory for the international community".
Stricken United plane captain dies in Idaho
1:20am A United Airlines captain suffered an apparent heart attack while piloting a plane from Houston to Seattle and passengers stepped in to help before the plane made an emergency landing in Idaho.
Bus bombing in Pakistan kills at least 17
12:03am A bomb exploded on a crowded bus carrying government officials north of Peshawar on Friday, killing 17 people and wounding more than 40 in the north-western Pakistani city.
US regulators could soon ease restrictions on smartphones during take-offs and landings
11:00pm With the blessing of an influential advisory panel, federal regulators are closer to letting airline passengers use their electronic gadgets during take-offs and landings.
Nicolas Maduro's claims of plots against his life dismissed
2:13pm A senior Barack Obama administration official is disputing the Venezuelan President's claim that plots against his life by former United States government officials forced him to cancel a trip to New York.
India building collapse leaves one dead, dozens trapped
1:27pm A multi-story building has collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, leaving one dead and around fifty feared trapped in the rubble.
United States, Russia agree on United Nations-Syria chemical arms measure
1:10pm Ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock, the United States and Russia agreed on Thursday on a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that would demand Syria give up its chemical arms.
Syrian chemical munitions can be destroyed in nine months, say officials
1:12pm United States and Russian officials now believe that the vast majority of Syria’s nerve agent stockpile consists of ‘‘unweaponised’’ liquid precursors that could be neutralised relatively quickly.
Kenya attack victims’ relatives frustrated
8:29am After almost a week, there is no precise death toll, no word on the fate of dozens still missing and no details on the al-Qaeda-linked terrorists who attacked Nairobi’s most upscale mall.
Guinness Day pits Diageo against medics in Irish beer row
1:34pm More than two centuries after his death, Arthur Guinness is dividing the Irish.
UN allow Abbas to use heads-of-state chair
The United Nations this week decided to extend to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a diplomatic protocol typically offered only to heads of state: the right to sit in the General Assembly’s beige chair.
Kenya unsettled by new militant attacks
Only days after heavily armed assailants stormed a crowded mall and killed scores of people in the capital, militants killed three people near the border with Somalia, Kenyan officials said on Thursday.
Kenya mall survivor smeared herself with blood of dying teen to trick Nairobi terrorists
A survivor from the Nairobi mall attack says she smeared herself in the blood of a teenager to fool the terrorists into thinking she was dead.
Interpol issues arrest notice for Britain’s ‘white widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite
Cassandra Vinograd Interpol on Thursday issued an arrest notice on behalf of Kenyan authorities for Samantha Lewthwaite, the fugitive Briton whom news media have dubbed the "white widow."
Iran’s president calls Israel to join nuclear nonproliferation treaty
President Hassan Rouhani tells UN “no nation should possess nuclear weapons,” and Israel should join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, part of a grander plan to create a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.
Pakistan aid helicopter targeted by rockets as death toll in quake rises to 355
Two rockets fired by militants in Pakistan's quake-struck region narrowly missed a government helicopter as survivors complained aid was not reaching far-flung areas and death toll climbed to 355.
Nissan recalls 908,900 vehicles for sensor problem
Nissan Motor Company recalled 908,900 vehicles around the world on Thursday for defective accelerator sensors that could cause the engine to stall.
Bomb blasts in markets across Baghdad kill 23
Sameer N. Yacoub Bombs ripped through outdoor markets in and near Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens, the latest in a deadly wave that has hit Iraq in recent months.
UN court upholds Charles Taylor's 50-year term on appeal
Jan Hennop A UN-backed appeals court on Thursday confirmed Liberian ex-president and warlord Charles Taylor's 50-year sentence for arming rebels during Sierra Leone's brutal 1990s civil war.
France
Climber finds treasure from Indian air crash on Mont Blanc
A French climber scaling a glacier off Mont Blanc stumbled across a treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires that had been buried for decades.
Berlusconi’s MPs threaten mass walk-out
Law makers from Silvio Berlusconi’s party have threatened to resign en bloc if a senate committee votes to oust the former prime minister from parliament over a tax fraud conviction.
Chinese street vendor's execution prompts online backlash
PHILIP WEN For a country that sentences more people to death than the rest of the world combined, there is something to be said about the spontaneous outpouring of sympathy over the execution of Xia Junfeng.
Al-Shabab: foreigners in Kenya 'legitimate target'
Andrew O. Selsky Al-Shabab, the armed Somali Islamic extremist group that attacked a shopping mall in Kenya, said Wednesday that foreigners were a "legitimate target" and confirmed witness accounts that gunmen tried to let Muslims go free while killing or taking the others captive.
Iran President Hassan Rouhani wants nuclear deal in months
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wants to reach an agreement over the country’s nuclear program within three months, it has been reported.
FBI releases chilling video of Navy Yard shooter
The gunman who slaughtered 12 people last week in Washington is seen darting through a Navy building like a special forces operator in a chilling video released by the FBI on Wednesday.
Core of UN Syria resolution agreed: diplomats
The world’s major powers have agreed on the main points of a UN Security Council resolution on destroying Syria’s chemical weapons, three Western diplomats say.
Ted Cruz, conservative Tea Party senator, ends marathon speech against Obamacare
Republican Senator Ted Cruz has ended a marathon Senate speech opposing President Barack Obama's health care law after talking for 21 hours, 19 minutes.
China executes former street vendor
China has executed a street food vendor who drew widespread sympathy after fatally stabbing two "heavy-handed" security officials, provoking outraged webusers to denounce his death penalty as unjust.
British zoo bans animal print clothes
A British zoo said it has banned visitors from wearing leopard or zebra print clothes because they are confusing the animals.
Vladimir Putin says Arctic activists broke law
President Vladimir Putin says 30 Greenpeace activists arrested by Russia were not "pirates" but had broken the law in a protest against Arctic oil exploration, as the authorities detained all the campaigners pending trial.
Pakistan struggles to help quake victims
Rescuers struggled Wednesday to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan as the death toll from the massive tremor the day before rose to at least 271.
'I made him fall in love': how Silvio Berlusconi's girlfriend, 28, got her man
Silvio Berlusconi's 28-year-old girlfriend says she courted the 76-year-old former premier relentlessly until he finally surrendered and is now just waiting for him to agree to marry her.
Iran 'absolutely no threat': Rouhani
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has called on United States counterpart Barack Obama to ignore ‘‘warmongering pressure groups’’ and seek better relations.
