King Harald V of Norway, Europe’s oldest monarch, has died at the age of 89, after 35 years on the throne. He died on Friday just after 6:35am, the Royal House of Norway announced on its website. Harald is succeeded as monarch by his son Haakon.

Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have returned to court for arguments over their upcoming sentences

The announcement has sent panic through a community that fled its country’s brutal military rule, civil war, religious persecution or some combination of the three.

Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an overnight onslaught that ran into the daylight hours of Thursday, when explosions echoed around Kyiv through the morning. Ukraine is desperately short of U.

Haitians are still reeling days after gangs attacked Kenscoff, a once-peaceful farming community nestled in the hills near Port-au-Prince.

Fifteen people have been killed in a blaze at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex in Russia’s Far East, the company that runs the plant said

Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic has died at 84 in The Hague, Netherlands, the U.N. said Thursday. He had been sentence to life for war crimes.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation memo told staff not to call 9/11 a terrorist attack ahead of the 25th anniversary, sparking political backlash.