The U.S. suffered its deadliest day in Afghanistan on Saturday when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashed in a province not far from the capital Kabul, killing nearly 40 people, including 31 American soldiers.

A bed-ridden Hosni Mubarak pleaded not guilty to charges of ordering the killing of anti-government protesters, as the historic trial of the former Egyptian president began on Wednesday.

It was a deadly beginning of Ramadan in Syria after at least 80 civilians were reportedly killed in Hama on Sunday, the eve of the Muslim holy season of fasting.

The rebel movement trying to topple Muammar Gaddafi in Libya suffered a major blow on Thursday when its military chief of staff was brutally killed in mysterious circumstances.

The father of Norway suspected murderer Anders Behring Breivik said his son should have taken his own life instead of killing 76 people in twin attacks Friday.

The quiet Norwegian capital of Oslo has been rocked by a massive blast that significantly damaged the 17-storey main government building in the city.

London’s Metropolitan Police has lost its top two officials in less than a day after Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates stepped down.

A deadly series of explosions rocked the city Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 141 others.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother was killed on Tuesday in his home in the restive and Taliban-infested province of Kandahar.

People in South Sudan partied in the streets of the capital Juba as the newly independent African state became the world’s newest country on Saturday.