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Six people were killed in a rail accident on a bridge linking Denmark's two main islands on Wednesday when a train was hit by debris from a passing freight train. 16 people were injured, officials said.
A four-lane motorway bridge near the Italian port city of Genoa has collapsed around noon on Tuesday. Video filmed by Italian firefighters flying over the site shows a wide section of the bridge missing.
A man rammed a van into the Amsterdam headquarters of one of the Netherlands' major national newspapers before setting the vehicle alight.
Some 25 Jews and Muslims rode tandem bicycles through the German capital in a protest against growing anti-Semitism and attacks on Muslims in the country.
Turkish voters living in Istanbul are pleased that incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had won the country's national election.
In clashes between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers, at least 86 people have been killed. Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, announced a curfew.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has toured an immigration facility and reacted on President Trump's tweet: "When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came."
According to US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, the United States is pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. The US is also accusing the Council of a bias against Israel. The Trump administration announced its departure from the United Nations' main human rights body in its latest withdrawal from an international institution.
A first-ever UN human rights report on Kashmir calls for international inquiry into multiple violations. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on "a conflict that has robbed millions of their basic human rights, and continues to this day to inflict untold suffering."
German police have arrested a Tunisian man after discovering "toxic substances" at his flat in Cologne, officials said. Prosecutors are not ruling out a possible terror motive.
Guatemala's disaster agency issued evacuation orders for communities near new flows of volcanic material that sent up a great column of smoke. The new evacuation order set off a panic even in areas that were not under it.
Protests against a planned tax increase continued in Jordan. Despite the resignation of prime minister Hani Mulki, thousands have taken to the streets in the largest anti-government protests in several years.
A volcano southwest of Guatemala's capital has erupted for the second time this year on Sunday, spewing ash nearly six kilometers (four miles) into the sky.
German prosecutors say there are equivalent charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds here in Germany. But Carles Puigdemont's legal team disputes that. DW spoke to Wolfgang Schomburg, Puigdemont’s German lawyer, about the legal grounds for contesting Puigdemont’s extradition to Spain.
A riot broke out in a police station jail in Venezuela's Carabobo state Wednesday. At least 68 people died, government officials said.
Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her native Pakistan, six years after she was shot by Taliban gunmen. Upon her arrival, Malala met Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
A suicide bomber struck on the road to a Shiite shrine in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people as Afghans celebrated the Persian new year.
For Albert Einstein, it turns out the law of attraction was relative. A handwritten note by the Nobel-winning scientist, written to a young woman who apparently caught his eye during a trip to Italy, is set to go on sale at a Jerusalem auction.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come under criticism for telling a small girl dressed in a military uniform that she would be honored if she were "martyred" for Turkey. Erdogan spotted the weeping-and-saluting 6-year-old Amine Tiras while delivering a speech at his ruling party's congress.
The Syrian crisis has led Aref Jabo to flee his country. But he wants to go back to be reunited with his family and to go back to his job. He also wants everything to be rebuilt in Syria.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan region. At least five people were killed and four wounded when a gunman opened fire on people leaving a Sunday service at a Russian Orthodox church in Kizlyar.
Moscow experienced its heaviest day of snowfall since records began, the city's mayor said. The snowfall downed power lines in the Moscow region, interrupting electricity for more than 5,000 people.
Amir Mangal was a national cricket player of Afghanistan. He has played international matches for the team. But now he is living in a refugee camp in Germany. His message to his countrymen is simple: love your soil.
The seven-year crisis has forced millions of Syrians to flee their country. But many now want to return and rebuild the country. One of them is Halah Alhayik.
