A 27-year-old man who stabbed four people with a knife on a German high-speed train apparently attacked his victims “at random” and showed signs of mental illness, authorities said Sunday. Police and investigators told reporters in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz that the attacker’s...

A landmine explosion killed seven people, including a child, in Homs province of central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor reported. It detonated as a vehicle with the seven on board passed through a desert road outside the historic city of Palmyra, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...

A Syrian boy was hospitalised after allegedly being beaten and strangled by an older student at his school in a reportedly racially motivated attack in Turkey. Ramez Al-Housni, 12, was reportedly assaulted by a 17-year-old Turkish student in an unsupervised school playground in Istanbul's...

Portsmouth man Isaac Idris, who used to be known as Mustakim Jaman, was yesterday jailed for eight months after admitting failing to tell police about his finances, a phone number and email addresses. The 29-year-old, of Hudson Road, Somers Town, was supposed to report such information to...