The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have revealed World War I and II ordnance lurking beneath the blackened landscape.

An 18-year-old with a sword attacked a school Friday in central Sweden, killing one person and seriously injuring two others, a police chief said. Police Chief Tommy Alriksson told a news conference that the 18-year-old perpetrator at the school in the central town of Fagersta had been arrested.

Somali pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off Yemen, marking a resurgence in piracy. A Somali maritime security official says six armed pirates seized the Eritrean-flagged M.T. Sibu 1 on

Armed ⁠men ⁠abducted over 60 ⁠worshippers from a mosque in Nigeria's ​north-central Niger state during Friday prayers, police ‌said on Saturday, in ‌the latest mass kidnapping in ⁠a ⁠region plagued by violent gangs.

The probe of Guo Degang highlights China’s stricter controls and censorship of the entertainment and arts industries, where performers and artists have to navigate an environment where “red lines” are often unclear and shifting.

The Central African Republic is one of more than 30 countries the U.S. government has convinced to accept third-country deportees arrested as part of President Trump's large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration.

Years after Hong Kong’s annual vigil for the Tiananmen Square crackdown ended, former organizer Tang Ngok-kwan still discreetly visits former memorial sites in the city

Beijing declined to criticize N. Korea after Pyongyang launched more than 10 ballistic missiles shortly after China's foreign minister left Seoul.