Sobbing Thai students embraced each other tightly on Friday after a 14-year-old classmate entered their school wielding his grandfather's handgun and shot dead at least five school staff.
Beleaguered FIFA president Gianni Infantino has received some much-needed support, after over a week of scathing criticism revolving around the now shelved private investment plan, but also on Friday there was a call for him to resign.
McLaren boss Andrea Stella is proud of the way Formula One world champion Lando Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri have conducted themselves following last season's battle for the drivers' championship.
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Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting
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A teenage suspect killed his grandparents before shooting dead at least six more people at a school near Bangkok Friday, police said.
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At least four people were killed and 15 students injured during a school shooting just north of the Thai capital Bangkok on Friday, the deputy interior minister said.
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Animal trappers have cut short the two-week rampage of a monkey that randomly attacked 18 people on Sumatra island in Indonesia, prompting dozens of schools to close in fear.
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Zigzagging between robots, weapons and computers in his garage workshop, Ukrainian engineer Eduard Trotsenko was bubbling with excitement as he showed off his latest prototypes and dreamed of sci-fi-inspired futuristic ideas.
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Giant dust clouds rose from a green-red combine harvester as it crawled across a parched field, a sign that something was awry with UK farmer John Pawsey's land.
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Far from their origins in the Arabian desert, hundreds of thousands of camels roam outback Australia where they are used for wild races, an alternative milk source and even to make beer.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis killed at least 58 government troops in missile and drone attacks on Thursday, a military source said, in one of the deadliest days of the country's civil war in four years.
Pacific diplomats gathered in Fiji failed on Friday to agree on a joint statement condemning China's recent test of a nuclear-capable missile in the region, with New Zealand's foreign minister accusing them of appeasing "outsiders".
Chinese activist Zhang Xinyan has arrived in Canada after months living in fear of deportation at a Bangkok detention centre, and supporters say others like her remain under threat in Thailand.
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No one knew what Lobga Rangzen was planning. Not the monk who was his friend of 30 years, not his niece in New York.
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Australia will aim to make a fresh start under new coach Les Kiss against Japan on Saturday, with just 14 months to go until they host the Rugby World Cup.
Oil prices extended gains and stocks fell further on Friday amid fading optimism over a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as reports said Iran was planning to block US and Israeli ships from the waterway as part of a deal with Oman.
Dog meat soup and bubbling ginseng broths are being proffered by North Korea's leadership as home remedies to take the edge off a spell of searing weather.
US-backed political transition talks between Venezuela's interim government and opposition representatives began Thursday in Caracas, an AFP photographer in attendance observed.
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