The Border Guard Committee of Belarus says it has detained a Turkmenistan-born Swedish man and is preparing to extradite the former journalist to Turkmenistan which he fled more than a decade ago.
Denmark's armed forces say Danish F-16 aircraft have for the first time dropped bombs in Syria's Raqqa province where the Islamic State group has its self-declared capital.
Abuse survivors and opposition politicians say the British government must make sure an inquiry into decades of child sexual abuse is not derailed by the sudden resignation of its chief.
A German university is ditching a seminar about young people in the Palestinian territories that faced accusations of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli content.
Chinese researchers say they've found evidence that a flood submerged a vast swath of the country almost 4,000 years ago, possibly offering evidence that China's legendary first dynasty did in fact exist.
An Egyptian security official says the country's former grand mufti has survived a shooting south of Cairo shortly before entering a mosque to lead Friday prayers.
Moldova's Foreign Ministry and its Defense Ministry have criticized recent Russian military exercises held in a separatist region, saying they undermined the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova.
With 95 percent of votes counted in municipal elections, South Africa's ruling party appears to have suffered its biggest electoral blow since it won power at the end of the apartheid era 22 years ago.
Italian prosecutors say that a Tunisian arrested in a sting on an illegal immigration ring had recently gone through a process of self-radicalization, pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State group and celebrating recent terror attacks.
German prosecutors say they won't pursue an investigation into a man filmed shouting insults at a German-Iranian man who killed nine people and then himself in Munich on July 22.
Authorities on the Canary island of La Palma say they have evacuated 2,500 people because of a forest fire reportedly started by a German man who burned soiled toilet paper.
A petition calling on Russia's president to sack Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, whose comments about teachers' pay sparked outrage earlier this week, has attracted more than a hundred thousand signatures.
An investigation by the Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Shiite rebels, says that the coalition has committed "unintended bombings" and blamed U.N.