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A German special police unit has detained an allegedly high-ranking member of the extremist Islamic State group in the southwestern town of Mutterstadt.

Attention oenophiles: a 500-year old Austrian vine has yielded its first batch of wine and experts say it's a taste sensation.

Polish officials say the leader of Poland's conservative ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary.

Pakistani lawyers are mourning colleagues slain in a shocking suicide bombing the previous day in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed 70 people, mostly lawyers.

Britain's defense ministry says a Royal Air Force training helicopter made an emergency landing on a mountain peak in Wales and then burst into flames.

Sudan's major rebel groups on Tuesday announced they signed on to an African Union-backed plan to end the deadly fighting in war-torn areas including Darfur, AFP reported.

The woman slated to become the first openly gay minister in highly conservative Serbia says she hopes public attention surrounding her election will soon fade so she can focus on her new job.

German prosecutors say they have tracked down eight people who allegedly worked at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II and are considering whether they can be charged as accessories to murder.

Sudanese authorities on Tuesday warned residents living near the banks of the Nile in the capital, Khartoum, to take extreme precautions in anticipation of possible flooding caused by heavy rainfall, after more than 70 people were killed in flooding elsewhere in Sudan last week.

In this electricity-starved rural part of Uganda, men ride bicycles several kilometers (miles) to the nearest market town simply to charge their phones.

One of India's most prominent political activists ended a 16-year hunger strike Tuesday, licking honey from her hand and declaring "I will never forget this moment."

South Africa's president, speaking to mark the nation's Women's Day on Tuesday, avoided making any reference to an anti-rape protest against him on live television days earlier.

Turkish politics spilled onto the basketball court Monday when an Oklahoma City Thunder player was disowned by his family in Turkey and responded by changing his last name to show devotion to a controversial U.S.-based cleric who is locked in a bitter feud with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

An intelligence official says soldiers have pursued extremists who entered a hotel in Mali's capital and hung a black jihadi flag from the roof before escaping into the neighborhood.

Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition bombed a food factory in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa early on Tuesday, killing 14 civilians working on an overnight shift, according to a factory official and medics.

A Pakistani court has allowed federal investigators to hold an American for another three days to investigate how he re-entered Pakistan despite being barred from the country.

Kuwait's state-run oil company says an oil spill has struck an onshore field.

Israel on Tuesday indicted a Palestinian UN employee in the Gaza Strip, accusing him of assisting the territory's Islamic militant Hamas rulers, just days after it charged the Gaza manager of international charity World Vision for allegedly funneling millions to the group.

A Kenyan police official says a Chinese tour guide has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a couple during an argument over seating arrangements for dinner in the famed Maasai Mara game reserve.

Iran's official news agency is reporting that an explosion in a factory producing foam for upholstery has killed one worker and injured five others.