Call for calm as Belfast suffers third night of trouble
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson on Sunday called for peace as a police officer was hurt in the third night of disorder in Belfast.
Egypt freezes assets of 14 top Islamists
Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists, as the US dispatched its first senior official to Cairo since president Mohamed Morsi's ouster.
Attacks including series of bombings kill 33 in Iraq
Violence including an apparently coordinated series of bombings that struck central and southern Iraq on Sunday killed 33 people.
Deadly fighting traps hundreds of families in Damascus: NGO
Shelling killed at least 13 people on Sunday in the Damascus district of Qaboon, where fierce fighting between the army and rebels has trapped hundreds of families.
An-2 plane crashes in Kyzylorda oblast
An An-2 plane has crashed during fertilization of a rice field in Kyzylorda oblast in southern Kazakhstan.
British counter-terror police probe mosque 'nail-bomb'
British counter-terror police were on Friday investigating reports of an explosion outside a mosque in central England that witnesses said left nails scattered over the ground.
Typhoon kills three, forces evacuation of 500,000 in China
Eastern China was battered Sunday by strong winds and torrential downpours from Typhoon Soulik which left three people dead and forced half a million people to evacuate their homes.
Obama urges calm after racially-charged murder trial
President Barack Obama appealed to Americans for restraint Sunday amid anger from civil rights activists and public protests against the acquittal of a man who gunned down an unarmed black teenager.
Greek PM faces week of protests over new austerity bill
Greece's prime minister faces protests this week over a bill that must pass for the country to receive a fresh tranche of EU-IMF aid.