Volunteer first responders in Syria's Aleppo say they have pulled the bodies of nine people, including four children, from the rubble following air raids on a rebel-held area.
Muslims awaiting the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage have climbed a historic mountaintop looking over the holy city of Mecca, taking in its modern sights from a place revered in Islamic history.
The FIFA ethics committee says it has opened a formal bribery case against former president Sepp Blatter and two others over million-dollar bonuses in their contracts.
Britain's Serious Fraud Office says it has charged three executives of supermarket chain Tesco over an accounting scandal in which the company overstated its profits.
German officials say about 500 metric tons (551 tons) of dual-use compounds from the chemicals weapons program of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will be destroyed by the end of the year.
Conservationists say Zimbabwe and Malawi are allowing flights by anti-poaching drones as part of an initiative supported by Google and the WWF conservation group.
The European Union's foreign policy chief says the 28-member bloc and Turkey agree that there can be no military solution to the Syrian conflict and that only a political solution can bring peace to the war-torn country.
An aide to Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg says Facebook removed her post with an iconic 1972 image of a naked girl running from a napalm attack in Vietnam.
A French security official says a 19-year-old woman linked to gas canisters found in an abandoned car near Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Dozens of tourists, including a 10-year-old child, were safely rescued Friday after being trapped in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps overnight.