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 Twelve people have been killed after two masked gunmen entered the Paris headquarters of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three people are in a critical condition. President Francois Hollande

  The hunt for a missing AirAsia passenger plane appeared to be over on Tuesday as wreckage and dozens of bodies were spotted at sea off Indonesia, prompting raw scenes of emotion from sobbing relatives of the 162 people aboard. The Airbus

 An AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard lost contact with ground control soon after takeoff from Indonesia on Sunday morning. Search and rescue operations are underway. The Singapore aviation authority said it was informed about the

 Onlookers at a train station in northern India watched in awe as a monkey came to the rescue of an injured friend - resuscitating another monkey that had been electrocuted and knocked unconscious. The injured monkey had fallen between the

 The Department of International Relations says South African embassy officials in Ireland are investigating the deaths of an expat couple there. Department spokesperson, Nelson Kgwete, says they're still waiting for their report. He says

 A town planner who worked for influential Nigeria preacher TB Joshua has told an inquest that the building which collapsed at Joshua's church, killing 116 people, did not have planning approval. Bisi Adedire, who served as a consultant for

 Eight children have been found dead in a home in the northern Australian city of Cairns. Queensland state police said they were called to the home in the suburb of Manoora this morning after receiving a report of a woman with serious

The price of Brent crude oil slumped to a fresh five-year low on Tuesday, as weak Chinese manufacturing data stoked global demand concerns, with sentiment also plagued by over-supply. In morning trade in London, the price of Brent North Sea crude

Five people have managed to flee from a Sydney cafe where a gunman is holding several people hostage in a Lindt chocolate Cafe. Three hostages, all men, emerged from the cafe almost six hours after the standoff began with two women fleeing around