The world this week
UK Armed Forces have ended combat operations in Helmand Province, paving the way for the final transfer of security to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) (Photo: AP)- Pakistani teenage rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has donated USD 50,000 to help rebuild UN schools in Gaza that have been damaged during the recent fighting in the enclave
- Scientific theories including the “Big Bang” believed to have brought the universe into being 13.7 billion years ago and the idea that life developed through a process of evolution do not conflict with Catholic teaching, Pope Francis said on Tuesday
- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected by the narrowest margin in three decades, handing her left-leaning Workers’ Party its weakest mandate as it confronts some of the country’s biggest challenges
- The US Navy Seal commando who fired the shots which killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is to reveal his identity in a Fox News television documentary next month, the network announced on Wednesday. "The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden" will air in
- A girl Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, shot during a rampage at a Washington state high school last week that left two other girls dead along with the gunman has died from her wounds
- Orbital Sciences Corp.’s unmanned Antares rocket blew up just moments after liftoff on Tuesday from the Virginia coast. The rocket was carrying a Cygnus capsule loaded with 2 tons of space station experiments and equipment for NASA
- A passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday near the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other
- Former Union Carbide chief Warren M. Anderson died on October 29 in Florida. He was 92. As reported by the New York Times, Anderson’s family did not make his death public but it was confirmed from public records
- Disgraced Paralympics runner Oscar Pistorius' deceased girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's mother has claimed that her daughter confided in her that she had not yet had a sexual relationship with the double amputee athlete
- Boko Haram has claimed the 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped in Nigeria earlier this year have converted to Islam and been married off, according to a new video obtained by AFP on Friday
- An officer in Burkina Faso's presidential guard seized power on Saturday promising to lead the West African country to elections after the resignation of longtime President Blaise Compaore, in an apparent putsch against the military chief of staff
- South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for Lee Joon-seok, 68, the captain of a ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people, most of them school children, dead or missing, in a trial of 15 crew who abandoned ship before it
- South Korea's spy agency says it has an explanation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's mysterious 6-week-long public absence (Photo: AP)
- A Malaysian family sued the government and beleaguered national carrier for negligence in the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370, in what is believed to be the first lawsuit filed over the disaster.
- A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday handed Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, the leader of the country's largest Islamist party the death sentence for war crimes, in a long-awaited verdict that has triggered fears of fresh violence
- Bangladesh Railway Minister Mujibul Haque, 67, has married 29-year-old Honufa Akhter Rikta in the country's Comilla District
- At least 100 jihadists from the Islamic State group have been killed in three days of fighting for the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane, a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said on Saturday (Photo: AP)
- 38 people died from a mudslide at a tea plantation in at the Koslanda tea plantation in Badulla district, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) east of Colombo, Sri Lanka (Photo: AP)
- Lights came back on in most of Bangladesh on Sunday after a near 24-hour blackout that brought much of the country to a standstill (Photo: AP)
- Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged on Saturday after spending seven years behind bars. Jabbari was sentenced to death for killing a former intelligence ministry official, who she claimed she stabbed in self-defence as he tried to rape her
UK Armed Forces have ended combat operations in Helmand Province, paving the way for the final transfer of security to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) (Photo: AP)
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