Sweden's Social Democratic government says it is endorsing the sale of state-owned Vattenfall AB's four coal mines and its mining assets in Germany to Czech investors.
A Philippine military official says troops have dug up what they believe is the body of Canadian hostage Robert Hall, who was beheaded by Abu Sayyaf extremists more than two weeks ago in the south after a ransom deadline lapsed.
The Israeli military struck a series of militant sites in Gaza early Saturday in response to a rocket attack that hit a kindergarten in the Israeli border town of Sderot.
An Afghan official says that at least two civilians have been killed after a suicide bomber on a motorbike targeted a local tribal elder in eastern Nangarhar province.
Police say five people were killed and at least 20 were injured when a man entered a cafe in northern Serbia and sprayed the visitors with automatic gun fire.
A gunman killed five people and injured at least 20 others early Saturday when he opened fire with an automatic weapon in a cafe in northern Serbia, police said.
The Israeli military says it has struck militant sites in Gaza in response to a rocket attack that hit a kindergarten in the Israeli border town of Sderot.
Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant where heavily armed militants held dozens of people hostage Saturday morning, killing at least six of the attackers and rescuing 13 captives including foreigners at the end of the 10-hour standoff.
At least seven Islamic terrorists attacked an upscale restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of Bangladesh's capital Friday night, killing 20 people and taking more than a dozen others hostage before confronting authorities in a 10-hour long standoff.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he is lifting electricity rationing that began more than two months ago because a drought had caused low water levels at the hydroelectric dam that provides most of the country's power.
Nigeria's Shiite movement and journalists say more than a million Shiites have marched to demand freedom for their detained leader and Israeli-occupied parts of Palestine.
Gunmen have stormed a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of Dhaka, taking hostages while engaging security forces in a gunbattle that has left two officers dead, authorities say.
Commandos stormed a restaurant in an upscale area of Bangladesh's capital early Saturday, hoping to free dozens of hostages held by Islamist militants following an hours-long standoff.
Authorities in Peru say a German tourist plunged to his death in a deep Andean ravine while posing for a photo in an area above the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu that is closed to visitors.