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India’s Supreme Court received an appeal challenging the death sentence of the only surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, authorities said Friday.

At least 18 people were killed in southern Afghanistan on Friday when their bus rolled over an improvised explosive device, according to a governor’s spokesman.

The new head of al Qaeda describes Syria’s president as “the leader of criminal gangs, the protector of traitors,” and applauds anti-government protesters seeking to topple him, in a video that appeared on extremist websites this week.

The new head of al Qaeda describes Syria’s president as “the leader of criminal gangs, the protector of traitors,” and applauds anti-government protesters seeking to topple him, in a video that appeared on extremist websites this week.

Norway’s police are facing tough questions over their response to last Friday’s terror attacks, in which 76 people died.

The British judge leading the government-backed probe into illegal eavesdropping by journalists will start ordering people to testify and hand over documents “as soon as possible,” he said Thursday, as the inquiry launched.

Massive downpours in South Korea — the heaviest rains in a century — are blamed for 44 deaths, the country’s Central Disaster Relief Agency reported Thursday.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in the eastern city of Wenzhou Thursday, where the crash of a high-speed train had taken the lives of 39 people over the weekend, state media reported.

Ivory Coast’s new president plans to make national harmony his top priority as he tries to pull his crisis-ridden country together after many months of political turbulence and what one just-released report calls a now-prevailing “climate of fear.”

Ivory Coast’s new president plans to make national harmony his top priority as he tries to pull his crisis-ridden country together after many months of political turbulence and what one just-released report calls a now-prevailing “climate of fear.”