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A fire has broken out during the demolition of a chimney at a paper factory in Japan's Kumamoto prefecture.

The body of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide, will be flown to Serbia on Thursday.

At least five people have died after a boat carrying West African migrants ran into trouble in the Atlantic Ocean. Dozens more are feared dead.

Renewed fighting has erupted between government forces and militias near Somalia's southwestern city of Baidoa.

It was a monster of a storm that formed within minutes. Hikers near the bottom of the Grand Canyon were enveloped by torrential rainfall, gusting winds and the deafening roar of approaching floodwaters.

Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died at 90.

The Sultan of Oman will travel to Britain for a three-day state visit next month as the Arab nation that controls the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz comes under pressure from both the U.S. and Iran.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has rejected suggestions that Morocco helped orchestrate the deadly July border breach in Ceuta.

Thousands of young Orthodox Christians have taken part in a candlelit procession in Romania's capital, part of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth.

Pakistan's military says its security forces have killed 15 militants attempting to cross into the country from neighboring Afghanistan.