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An F/A-18 fighter jet was "mistakenly fired on" by the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, authorities said.

Pope Francis has told Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another, calling gossip "an evil that destroys social life.

In 2024, more than 10,000 people died in traffic accidents in Brazil, according to the Ministry of Transportation.

Inside Gaza, mourners held funerals for 19 people, 12 of them children, killed in Israeli strikes.

The suspect, identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., was arrested after plowing a black BMW into a Christmas market crowded with holiday shoppers in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people and wounding more than 200 others.

The stampede occurred in the early morning at a church in Nigeria, prompting evacuations at the church.

Samuel Paty was killed by an Islamic extremist outside his school, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression.

A car drove into a crowd of revelers at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.

In a video, seemingly filmed with a camera worn by the shooter, a person carrying a handgun can be seen firing multiple shots in a parking garage.

One of the inmates with a gun held out for about three hours, protected by 20 fellow prisoners, officials said.