AFP, MOSCOW: Russian rescuers trawling the Black Sea on Wednesday found the second black box from a Syria-bound military plane that crashed at the weekend with 92 people on board, authorities said. “The second onboard recorder from the Tu-154 plane has been found and raised from the seabed,”…

AFP, BEIJING: An aircraft carrier in the Pacific and a newly upgraded combat aircraft: China’s military is showing off its newest equipment less…

AFP, TRIPOLI: The bodies of 11 migrants who died trying to make the perilous journey to Europe have washed up on beaches around Libya’s capital Tripoli, the Red Crescent said Wednesday. “Teams from the Tripoli branch of the Libyan Red Crescent recovered 11 bodies washed up around Tripoli,”…

AFP, LOS ANGELES: After decades of fast living that her fearless “Star Wars” character Princess Leia would have struggled to keep up with,…

AFP, BEIRUT: Air strikes carried out by unidentified aircraft killed at least 22 civilians, including 10 children, in a village held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were from two families at Hojna in Deir…

AFP, NEW DELHI: At least two people died and 28 were injured Wednesday after a train derailed in north India, close to the site of a previous rail accident that killed 146. The incident happened in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state, when more than a dozen coaches of an express train derailed. Local government…