Boston bombings trial hears closing arguments
Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a callous terrorist who carried out the 2013 attack, a prosecutor told jurors as the young Muslim's trial neared an end.
35 killed in Bangladesh storms
Powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend leaving a trail of devastation in the country's northwest and killing at least 35 people.
06 April 2015
Six Ukraine soldiers killed as war marks year
Six Ukrainian troops were killed by landmines in the restive separatist-held east, breaking a lull of several days in a conflict that began a year ago this week.
Nazarbayev expresses condolence over Russian trawler
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has expressed condolence to the Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Dalniy Vostok trawler that sunk in the Western Pacific Ocean.
Chase and gunshots stop poachers at Caspian Sea
Kazakhstani coast guards have stopped four Azeri poachers, who were trying to escape the territorial waters of Kazakhstan with nearly a ton of sturgeon.
31 March 2015
Death toll in Chile floods rises to 18
At least 18 people were killed in flash floods that hit a normally arid region of northern Chile last week, and about the same number remain missing.
Alps crash captain shouted 'open the damn door'
The captain of a passenger jet that investigators believe was deliberately crashed into the French Alps shouted at the co-pilot to "open the damn door".