A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage, in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.

The speaker of Bangladesh’s Parliament Abdul Hamid was elected unopposed as President Monday, a potentially crucial role as the restive country heads for elections next year, officials said.

The US police on Friday captured an ethnic Chechen teenager suspected of staging the Boston Marathon bombings after a desperate manhunt that paralysed the city and its suburbs.

Top US diplomat John Kerry said he would mull ways to deepen US engagement in the Arctic amid pleas from legislators to name America’s first ambassador to the resource-rich region.

The two suspects in the deadly Boston marathon bombings, one of whom was killed in a shootout with the police overnight, are brothers of Chechen origin, NBC News reported Friday.

Thousands of heavily armed police went door-to-door through a Massachusetts town on Friday in an unprecedented massive hunt for the remaining Boston marathon bombing fugitive.

A five-year-old girl was battling for her life on Friday after being kidnapped and brutally raped in the latest incident of sexual violence which has triggered nationwide protests.

Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen Friday in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan, officials said.

The police killed one of the suspected Boston marathon bombing suspects in a shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic deadly street-to-street manhunt for his accomplice, officials said.

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s first ex-military ruler to be arrested, is a washed-up political force whose dreams of a triumphant homecoming have been crushed by allegations of treason and murder.