Mali's intelligence service said that it arrested a Mauritanian man behind a deadly attack on Radisson Blu hotel in the capital, Bamako, last November.
Belgium said that more 'terrorist fighters' want to return to Europe from Syria to carry out further attacks, a month after suicide bombings in Brussels killed 32 people.
Up to 500 migrants might have drowned in the Mediterranean last week when human traffickers crammed people onto an already overcrowded ship, causing it to sink.
Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that yielded several arrests as France's president said a jihadist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being \"destroyed\".
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top European Union officials plan to travel close to Turkey's border with Syria in hopes of promoting a troubled month-old agreement to manage a refugee crisis that has left hundreds of thousands stranded on the migrant trail to Europe.
A transgender bathroom bill in the Tennessee legislature failed after the House sponsor said she was withdrawing the legislation while waiting to see how legal challenges play out in other states that have passed similar measures.
US authorities have uncovered what they believe to be the longest ever cross-border drug trafficking tunnel connecting Mexico and California.
The death toll from Ecuador's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake rose to 602 people, as dozens of aftershocks shook cities and towns around the country, spooking residents but causing no further damage.
Air France resumed flights to Iran after last year's landmark deal to curb Iranian nuclear activities, as part of larger French and European efforts to rebuild trade ties long frozen by sanctions.
Ten children were killed by rebel shelling on Syria's largest city this weekend, as the UN warned of desperate' conditions inside a war-ravaged Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.
Flash floods in northern provinces have killed at least 38 people overnight. Remote, northern areas of Afghanistan often see flash floods triggered by heavy rains, which also cause landslides.
Japan's first stealth fighter jet successfully took to the skies as the country joins a select group of world military powers wielding the radar-dodging technology.
China banned children of famous entertainers from appearing on popular reality shows as the country continues efforts to try to prevent the manufacture of child stars. The ban by the government's media regulator also covers appearances by the stars' children on chat shows and reports about them on entertainment programs.
At least 64 people have been killed and 327 injured in a powerful Taliban suicide bombing that ripped through central Kabul, triggering heavy firefight in a densely packed neighbourhood.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.