The world this week
A former Marine has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of murdering the US Navy Seal whose story inspired the blockbuster movie American Sniper. (Photo: AP)- Thousands of supporters of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed marched in the honeymoon islands' tiny capital Male Friday to protest his detention on terror charges, which sparked international condemnation. (Photo: AP)
- A former Turkish beauty queen could face imprisonment for two years over an "insulting" Instagram post. Prosecutors allege that Merve Buyuksarac, who won Miss Turkey in 2006, insulted the Turkish president in a post from last summer. (Photo: Twitter)
- Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia has been charged by police of masterminding an arson attack on a bus that left 29 people injured, days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the former premier could be put on trial for recent violence. (
- Representational Picture (Photo: DC/File)
- A US blogger of Bangladeshi origin was on Thursday hacked to death in Dhaka by unidentified assailants, police said, with his family saying the writer had received numerous threats from Islamist militants. (Photo: Facebook)
- Afghan villagers carry the lifeless bodies of victims of an avalanche, in the Khanj district of Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The number of people killed in a massive avalanche in a mountain-bound valley in northeastern Afghanistan
- The burly masked Islamic State (IS) terrorist known as 'Jihadi John' seen in gruesome videos of beheadings of Western hostages was today named as a Kuwait- born Londoner. Mohammed Emwazi, the 26-year-old ruthless killer, has featured in a series of
- The murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was carefully planned. "There is no doubt that the crime was meticulously planned, as well as the place chosen for the murder," the Investigative Committee, said in its first detailed
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said today, as Pyongyang ramps up the rhetoric ahead of US-South Korea military drills (Photo: AP)
- Large segments of the priceless winged-bull Assyrian protective deity are hurled to the ground as militants smash it to pieces (Photo: AP)
A former Marine has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of murdering the US Navy Seal whose story inspired the blockbuster movie American Sniper. (Photo: AP)
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