Hong Kong police arrested two people for allegedly acting "with seditious intent", authorities said, with local media identifying the pair as an independent journalist and an activist.

A shooting attack on a bus in central Syria on Wednesday killed seven people and left four others wounded, state media reported.

French security forces on Wednesday detained over 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools

A Tennessee woman convicted of murder survived two lethal injection doses, marking the state's second failed execution in months and prompting it to halt capital punishment this year.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham may have shifted the dial by floating a return for his country to the European Union.

A high school entrance hall caught fire in one French city and teenage protesters blocked trams in another on Thursday, as secondary pupils upped their strike over poor learning conditions.