Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel marries gay partner, a year after the tiny Roman Catholic nation approved a law allowing same-sex marriage. (Photo:AP)
A US jury later this week sentenced 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, one of the worst assaults on American soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Photo: AP)
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and more than 100 other defendants to death on Saturday over jail breaks during the 2011 uprising. (Photo: AFP)
The three British teenage girls who had earlier fled to Syria early on February, were recently spotted in a CCTV footage that shows the three girls in the Gatwick Airport. The three were later seen in another CCTV footage in a bus stop in Turkey. (
More than 750 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants were rescued off Indonesia later this week, police said, as Myanmar undermined calls for a coordinated response to Southeast Asia's human-trafficking crisis by threatening to boycott a planned summit
The train was carrying 238 passengers and five crew members. It said rail service on the busy Northeast Corridor between New York and Philadelphia was stopped. (Photo: AP)
A passenger train headed to New York City derailed in Philadelphia earlier in the week, killing at least five people and injuring several dozen more. (Photo:AP)
At least 28 people were killed and dozens more feared dead after a fire tore through a factory producing flip-flops in the Philippine capital Manila. (Photo: AFP)
Afghan security forces inspect the site of a Park Palace Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was attacked by Taliban militants, where four Indians lost their lives. (Photo: AP)
Pope Francis met Palestinian president later this week, calling him "an angel of peace," days after the Vatican said it was preparing to sign its first accord with Palestine to the anger of Israel. (Photo:AFP)