Indonesian search and rescue teams raised on Saturday the tail of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed nearly two weeks ago with the loss of all 162 people on board, and will soon search it for the flight recorders. (Photo: AP)
The suicide attack took place while a religious congregation was going on. (Photo: AP)
The identity of those killed was not known immediately. (Photo: AP)
Militants targeted the mosque in densely populated Chittian Hatian areas near Committee Chowk in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. (Photo: AP)
At least four people were killed and more than 15 injured on Friday in a bomb attack at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. (Photo: AP)
Boko Haram has been waging a 5-year insurgency to carve out an Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria. (Photo: AP)
Witnesses who escaped to neighboring towns and Borno state capital Maiduguri said the insurgents had razed many buildings and homes and killed dozens of civilians in subsequent raids this week. (Photo: AP)
At least 100 people were killed when Boko Haram attacked Baga last weekend. (Photo: AP)
Nigerian ground forces backed by air strikes are fighting to reclaim Baga from Islamist militant group Boko Haram which seized the northeastern town and a nearby military base at the weekend. (Photo: AP)
Following heavy loss of life over three consecutive days, which began with the attack on Charlie Hebdo when 12 people were shot dead, French authorities are trying to prevent a rise in vengeful anti-immigrant sentiment. (Photo: AP)
With one of the gunmen saying shortly before his death that he was funded by al-Qaeda, President Francois Hollande warned that the danger to France - home to the European Union's biggest communities of both Muslims and Jews - was not over yet. (
The violent end to the simultaneous stand-offs northeast of Paris and at a Jewish supermarket in the capital followed a police operation of unprecedented scale as France tackled one of the worst threats to its internal security in decades. (Photo:
Two brothers wanted for a bloody attack on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed on Friday when anti-terrorist police stormed their hideout, while a second siege ended with the deaths of four hostages. (Photo: AP)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon applauded the "peaceful and credible election" and affirmed the world body's support for "development, reconciliation, political dialogue and accountability in Sri Lanka." (Photo: AP)
In an acceptance speech, he was vague on foreign policy, promising to "maintain a close relationship with all countries and organisations." (Photo: AP)
Sirisena was sworn in at Colombo's Independence Square, where British colonial rulers handed Sri Lanka its independence in 1948. (Photo: AP)
Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena, a one-time ally of Rajapaksa who defected in November and derailed what the president thought would be an easy win, took 51.3 percent of the votes polled in Thursday's election. (Photo: AP)
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost his bid for a third term on Friday, ending a decade of rule that critics say had become increasingly authoritarian and marred by nepotism and corruption. (Photo: AP)
Search and rescue teams detected pings they believed were from the flight recorders on Friday and two teams of divers resumed the hunt soon after dawn on Saturday. (Photo: AP)
Crews brought it up from the bottom with the help of air bags. (Photo: AP)
Forty-eight bodies, including at least two strapped to their seats, have been found in the Java Sea off Borneo. (Photo: AP)
Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control during bad weather on December 28, less than half way into a two-hour flight from Indonesia to Singapore. There were no survivors. (Photo: AP)