Five people were killed in a plane crash in Puerto Carreno, western Colombia early Wednesday. Colombia’s Civil Aviation Institution said a Boeing 727-200 cargo plane crashed three minutes after it took off from Puerto Carreno, close to the Venezuelan border, en route to the Colombian...

China's smoggiest city closed schools Wednesday, as the country suffered through its sixth day under an oppressive haze, provoking public anger about the slow response to the threat to children's health. Since Friday, a choking miasma has covered a large swathe of northeastern China, leaving...

German police on Wednesday intensified a manhunt for the driver of a truck, who killed 12 people when he mowed into a Berlin Christmas market, and said they were following a number of good leads. After releasing a Pakistani asylum-seeker arrested near the scene, authorities warned that the...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have lost more than 75% of attack helicopters of different missions including mi-8, mi-17, mi-25, and gazelles, since the outbreak of the revolution in March 2011, well-informed source said. The source revealed that the regime has only less than 50...