Australian officials say a piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane.
Heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a hotel in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand-Bassam which is popular with Westerners, witnesses said. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.
Britain is set to lift a 15-year-old ban on a pro-Khalistan militant group after a debate in the House of Commons concluded that \"sufficient evidence\" does not currently exist to link it to terrorism.
Four people were killed in two separate shootings in the Turkish capital Ankara, a city on edge since a suicide bombing last weekend, but militants were not involved in incident, local newspapers and an official said.
EU leaders approved a controversial deal with Turkey to curb the huge flow of asylum seekers to Europe, with all migrants arriving in Greece by Sunday to be sent back.
A Russian rocket lifted off from the Baikonur space base, carrying three crew to the International Space Station including a US grandfather who is poised to enter the record books.
Police in Bolivia said a small plane crashed into a market in a town in the country's north, killing all four people in the aircraft and injuring three vendors on the ground.
Canada announced that it is providing 7,500 refurbished computers to Syrian refugees and hopes to give them a leg up in school and in job searches with new technology skills training.
A female member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was one of two suspected perpetrators of a car bombing that killed 37 people in the Turkish capital Ankara, security officials said.
Iran's annual fire festival ahead of the Persian New Year claimed three lives and left 259 injured, officials said, as warnings against dangerous celebrations were ignored.
At least two people were reportedly injured after a charter plane with 18 people on board crash-landed at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport.
Taiwan launched a database to inform residents about which areas might be susceptible to creating potentially catastrophic sinkholes in the event of one of the island's frequent earthquakes.
Tens of thousands of foreign maids in Hong Kong are in forced labour', according to a new report that fuels growing criticism of the city's treatment of its army of domestic workers.
A powerful bomb ripped through abus carrying government employees in Pakistan's Peshawar city, killing at least 16 people and injuring 30 others.
China issued yellow alert for smog as the pollution choked most regions in the country's north with no signs of abating.
At least eleven people were killed in two separate incidents triggered by torrential rains in Pakistan's north western city of Peshawar.
Russian Emergency Situations Ministry employees and police officers are seen as they take a car to drive to the area of a plane crash at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, Russia. (Photo: AP)
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.