A British man was remanded in custody on Saturday after being charged with threatening to kill 200 U.S. schoolchildren.
Reece Elliott, 24, appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court, in the Newcastle conurbation in northeast England.
Full StoryFlights resumed with delays at New York airports Saturday after a fierce blizzard passed.
"Airlines are expected to begin limited service this morning, but all travelers should check with airlines carriers for flight status," the New York and New Jersey Port Authority said on Twitter.
Full StoryA 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook southern Colombia Saturday, causing some damage to houses but no casualties or major mishaps, authorities said.
The quake was felt as far away as Quito, Ecuador and Bogota, where buildings swayed under the force of the tremor.
Full StoryAmnesty International on Saturday condemned India's execution of a Kashmiri separatist over a deadly 2001 attack on parliament, saying his trial fell "considerably short" of international fair standards.
Mohammed Afzal Guru's execution also suggested a "disturbing" trend towards the resumption of death penalty use in India, said the global human rights group.
Full StoryAt least 15 people were killed and 19 others were injured in a traffic accident in central Chile, local officials said Saturday.
The accident occurred near the town of Tome, in Biobio province, when a bus full of passengers fell into a ravine, said Luciano Parra, a spokesman for the Tome mayor's office.
Full StoryAzerbaijani troops killed an Armenian soldier on Saturday on the border between the two ex-Soviet enemies locked in a dispute over the region of Nagorny Karabakh, Armenia's Defense Ministry said.
"Serviceman Mger Ekhshatian, 37, was shot dead on February 9 as a result of a ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan," the ministry said in a statement.
Full StoryHundreds of protesters on Saturday rallied in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, to condemn the execution of a Kashmiri separatist in India.
Mohammed Afzal Guru, a one-time fruit merchant, was hanged at New Delhi's Tihar Jail early Saturday over his role in a deadly attack on the Indian parliament in 2001, after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected a mercy appeal.
Full StoryFive people, including three children, died Saturday when their light plane crashed at Charleroi airport in southern Belgium, forcing its closure for several hours, police said.
The two adults and the children on the Cessna aircraft were from the same family, the police said.
Full StoryMalian troops bolstered security at army checkpoints and villagers detained two youths allegedly strapped with explosives on Saturday after Islamists claimed responsibility for the country's first suicide attack.
Residents of a village near Gao, the largest city in the north, detained two youths they said were wearing explosive-rigged belts and traveling on the same road where the suicide bombing on Friday wounded a soldier at a checkpoint.
Full StoryA landmine explosion ripped through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan and killed six members of a family, provincial authorities said Saturday.
"Six people all onboard -- two elderly men, two women and two men -- were killed in a landmine explosion in Nad Ali district of Helmand province," Ahmad Zirak, the provincial governor's spokesman, told AFP.
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