The world this week
Three members of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s family, including his stepmother and sister, were reportedly among four people killed when a private jet crashed in southern England while landing. (Photo: viaweb)- A Libyan court on Tuesday sentenced slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam and eight other defendants to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising. Former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi and Kadhafi's last prime minister Al-Baghdadi
- A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and four family members injured in an arson attack by suspected Jewish settlers on two homes in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: Twitter)
- Peru will try to make contact for the first time with an Amazonian tribe that largely lives isolated in the jungle, part of a bid to ease tensions with nearby villages after a bow-and-arrow attack in May, authorities said. (Photo: YouTube Screengrab)
- Adding to the list of atrocious stories that pour out of the refugee camps in Iraq, it has emerged that a four-year-old Yazidi boy was forced to join a terror camp where he was taught Quran, the Sharia, and even handed a sword to behead his mother
- Traveling at speeds of up to 240 mph, 164 skydivers flying head-down built the largest ever-vertical skydiving formation Friday over central Illinois, smashing the previous record. (Photo: AP)
- New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor called for unity in the movement in his first audio message released Saturday amid reports of rifts in their ranks following the announcement of the death of former chief Mullah Omar. (Photo: Twitter)
- imbabwe will seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and caused international outrage, a Cabinet minister said Friday. (Photo: AP)
- Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, revealed on Friday that their first child is on the way after a series of miscarriages. (Photo: Facebook)
- The toll from flash floods and landslides in Myanmar after days of torrential rain is likely to spike, the UN warned, on Sunday, as monsoonal downpours brought misery to thousands across the region. (Photo: AP)
Three members of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s family, including his stepmother and sister, were reportedly among four people killed when a private jet crashed in southern England while landing. (Photo: viaweb)
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