5 killed as car rams into students in China
Beijing: A speeding luxury car driven by the son of a provincial ruling Chinese Communist Party official rammed a group of students crossing a road in front of a primary school in Liaoning province, killing five of them and injuring 18 others.
8 die as gunmen attack French drilling camp
Paris: Seven employees of a French mineral and water drilling firm and a local official were killed early on Thursday when gunmen attacked their site in southeastern Niger.
US airstrikes in Somalia kill six extremists
Nairobi (Kenya): The US military on Thursday announced the latest of several deadly airstrikes this week against al-Shabab extremists in Somalia as it targets a region well north of where the al-Qaida-linked fighters control large parts of the country.
Pak’s Urdu writer Fahmida Riaz dies
Lahore: Noted Pakistani progressive Urdu writer, poet Fahmida Riaz, who spent nearly seven years in exile in India, has died in Lahore following a prolonged illness. She was 73.