Indonesian authorities said Wednesday that they had found part of the flight recorder of the Russian passenger jet that crashed into the side of a volcano during a demonstration flight last week, killing 45 people.
Francois Hollande has been sworn in as president of France, becoming the first Socialist leader in 17 years to occupy the Elysee Palace.
Mr Hollande said he was fully aware of the challenges facing France, including the debt crisis and weak growth.
He will later name his prime minister and fly to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A small plane crashed after it was unable to land in a mountainous area of Nepal on Monday, killing 15 of the 21 people on board, aviation officials said.
The plane was about a mile from the airport at Jomsom, a popular tourist town in central Nepal, when it went down, said Purusottam Shakya, deputy director of air traffic service operations in Kathmandu. It was operated by Agni Air, a Nepalese carrier.
Greek political leaders said talks on forming a unity government would go on after Sunday's opening round of negotiations with President Karolos Papoulias.
A moderate earthquake measured at a magnitude 5.7 by U.S. seismologists rumbled through the republic of Tajikistan Sunday.
The quake struck shortly before dawn about 88 miles east of the city of Dushanbe, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency said emergency services officials in Tajikistan said there were no immediate reports of major damage, although the shaking was felt in much of the eastern half of the mountainous country.
The death toll from a brief but intense storm in mountainous northwestern China had risen to 40 with 18 other people still missing, authorities said Saturday.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency said the heavy rain and hail in Gansu province's Minxian County lasted for just an hour Thursday, but affected 358,000 people. Nearly 30,000 were evacuated from their homes and 87 were hospitalized.
Two Turkish journalists who were held in Syria for two months are on their way home after being released following Iranian mediation.
Reporter Adem Ozkose and cameraman Hamit Coskun have arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
They are said to be in good health.
When John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, ordered beef served between slices of bread about 250 years ago he probably did not think his request would become a global convenience meal.
The story goes that the Earl asked for the particular serving so that he could eat while continuing to play cards and his friends asked "to have the same as Sandwich", according to the British Sandwich Association.
Egyptians living abroad began voting at diplomatic missions worldwide Friday in what is considered the nation's first free and fair presidential election in modern history.
Voters in 166 nations have until May 17th to cast their ballots at the nearest consulate or embassy, according to the country's election committee.
Scores of people in the Philippine capital held a demonstration Friday to protest China's increasingly bellicose rhetoric about a monthlong naval standoff between Beijing and Manila over a disputed lagoon in the South China Sea.
