US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a news conference after the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) meeting in Munich, Germany. Diplomats trying to secure a ceasefire for the civil war in Syria fell short early Friday in organising a truce but agreed to try to work out details and implement a temporary \"cessation of hostilities\" in a week's time.
Australia said it will \"carefully consider\" if it can help the orphans of an ISIS fighter and their Sydney-born mother, who both reportedly died in Syria, warning the children could pose a threat later in life.
Six UN peacekeepers have been killed and some 30 wounded when suspected Islamists attacked their base in northern Mali, officials said, while three Malian soldiers died in an ambush as jihadists intensify attacks in the restive region.
Two trains crashed head-on in southern Germany, leaving several dead and seriously injured, said reports.
The row over a new contract for junior doctors in the UK that led to a strike is set to escalate after the government unilaterally imposed the changes.
Farmers from across Greece have begun gathering in Athens for a two-day protest against the government and its plans to impose new tax hikes and pension charges.
The Obama administration notified the US Congress of its decision to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan worth nearly USD 700 million, notwithstanding American lawmakers' demand for stopping the proposed sale.
Two teenage girls died at a high school in Arizona in what police called a murder-suicide.The 15-year-olds, described as close friends and in a relationship, were found lying next to each other under a covered patio near the cafeteria at Independence High School, near Phoenix, police said in a statement.
Camps for the displaced along Syria's border with Turkey are at full capacity, aid workers say, as tens of thousands flee a major government offensive in Aleppo province.
Nearly 90 policemen and dozens of protesters were injured in Hong Kong after a riot erupted when officials tried to shift illegal hawkers, the worst clashes since mass pro-democracy protests in 2014.
United States and its Asian allies tightened the economic screws on North Korea with the US Senate adopting fresh sanctions and South Korean firms abandoning a joint industrial park that helped fund Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
The number of deaths in a powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan's oldest city of Tainan a week ago has risen to 113 with at least four missing.
Nepal's agitating Madhesis called off their nearly five-month long blockade at the Indo- Nepal border, bringing relief to the country suffering severe shortages of fuel, medicine and other supplies due to the protests against a new Constitution.
The mastermind behind the deadly 2014 attack on a army school in Pakistan's Peshawar was killed in US-backed drone strike.
The prosecution in the 26/11 attack case decided to challenge a Pakistan anti-terrorism court's rejection of their plea to form a commission to examine a boat used by LeT terrorists to reach Mumbai in 2008.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.