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Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK-661 carrying 40 passengers has lost contact with a control tower, the airline said in a statement Wednesday.

Lebanese lawmakers on Wednesday took the first step to overturn a law that allows rapists to avoid punishment if they marry their victims. The move came a day after protesters wearing fake-blood-stained wedding gowns confronted lawmakers just steps away from Parliament in the capital Beirut.

He soared to fame as the front man of one of Pakistan's most iconic pop bands. And then at the height of his career, he gave it up to devote his life to God.

Look back at photos of notable airplane crashes through the years.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not one for rabble-rousing. In 11 years as the leader of Germany, her speeches are usually sobering analyses of thorny political and economic dilemmas, using only her signature diamond-shaped hand gesture to punctuate her points.

A caddie has died after collapsing on a fairway during the first round of the Dubai Ladies Masters.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi officially resigned Wednesday after a crushing defeat in a referendum on constitutional reform.

On August 8, 2014, jets carried out the first American airstrikes against ISIS.

The tons of love locks removed from the city's bridges will be auctioned to raise funds for refugees.

The family of a 7-year-old girl who has captured the world's imagination with her heartbreaking tweets from Aleppo says the Syrian army has taken control of their area of the city.

Junaid Jamshed was on a Pakistan International Airlines flight from Chitral to Islamabad when it crashed.

A shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia's Aceh province on Wednesday, December 7.

ISIS' march across Iraq and Syria -- a campaign that's forced President Barack Obama to return small numbers of US troops to the region, even after touting an end to the decade-long ground offensives there -- came as a surprise to US intelligence, the President told CNN in a new special report.

If doctors in Kenya were looking for a way to show their value -- it couldn't have come clearer.

A 55-year-old man has been arrested over racist online threats he allegedly made against Gina Miller, the businesswoman behind a high-profile legal challenge to Brexit.

China's huge cash stockpile has taken another hit.

Seventy-five years after Japan unleashed one of the most devastating naval attacks in history on the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, the country has again established itself as one of the world's foremost military powers, experts say.

The head of LaMia Airlines -- the charter carrier that was transporting Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense before their plane crashed in Colombia last week -- has been apprehended by authorities, according to a Bolivian state media report.

The small town of Publier in France's eastern Haute-Savoie region has been ordered to remove a statue of the Virgin Mary from a public park overlooking Lake Geneva.