Lebanon's parliament elected Army Chief Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday, bringing an end to a prolonged political deadlock and presidential vacancy, CNN reported.
Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where a 'lone wolf terrorist' killed more than a dozen people by ramming a car into them during the New Year's celebrations, was reopened on Thursday (local time), CNN reported.
The death toll has now risen to at least 15 people in the New Orleans "act of terrorism" after a car rammed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in the early hours of Wednesday (US local time), CNN reported.
A US appeals court on Monday (local time) upheld the jury's verdict of USD 5 million against President-elect Donald Trump for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll in 1996 and denied a retrial, CNN reported.
China has expanded over 200 specialised detention facilities across the country to interrogate suspects caught in President Xi Jinping's widening anti-corruption campaign, CNN reported on Saturday.
A passenger plane travelling from Azerbaijan to southern Russia with 67 people on board crashed near Aktau, a city in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, CNN reported, citing local officials.
Saudi Arabia issued multiple warnings to German authorities about the suspect, who attacked a Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday evening, which killed five people and over 200 injured, CNN reported citing sources
At least two people were killed and dozens injured in the attack at a Christmas market, CNN reported. The incident occurred when a car deliberately rammed into a crowd of people at the market, causing multiple fatalities and injuries.
Investigators found that a 15-year-old girl was the shooter in the Wisconsin school shooting that killed two and injured six at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin, CNN reported.
South Korea's ruling People Power Party (PPP) has now supported moves to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, following his controversial declaration of martial law, which sparked a political crisis and widespread public outrage, CNN reported on Thursday.