French authorities on Tuesday dismantled a makeshift camp in Calais known as the “jungle,” used as a base for illegal migrants trying to reach Britain across the Channel.

An Asian black bear injured a group of tourists before being shot dead by local hunters at a bus station in central Japan.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake rocked Bhutan on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with tremors felt in neighboring northeast India and Bangladesh.

Lawmakers in the Indonesian province of Aceh have unanimously approved a law allowing adulterers to be stoned to death. The law also imposes grave punishments for rape, pedophilia homosexuality, alcohol consumption and gambling.

The Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush in Baghdad last December was finally released on Tuesday after nine months in prison.

Three British terrorists were jailed for life on Monday after they were found guilty last week of conspiracy to kill thousands of people using liquid home-made bombs.

A sense of order has returned to Kampala, the Ugandan capital, after days of riots that left 14 people dead and scores injured. The violence that erupted on Thursday was triggered by land and power disputes between the government and loyalists of Buganda—one of the country’s traditional kingdoms.

A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, has died after struggling to give birth to a baby for three days.

Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women’s 800-metre at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, is a hermaphrodite— a person with both female and male sexual characteristics.

Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter who had been abducted while covering the bombing incident in Kunduz, has been rescued by NATO forces in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, lives were lost in the process.

At least 28 lives have been taken in northern Turkey after torrential rains sparked flash floods there, according to the calculation based on media reports.