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The Latest on a train crash in Germany that has caused deaths and injuries (all times local): Police say the death toll from a head-on train collision in southern Germany has risen to 10 after one of the people injured died in hospital. Regional police spokesman Stefan Sonntag said one person is also still missing after the Tuesday morning crash ...

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders have shaken up the US presidential race with decisive victories in the New Hampshire primary. Billionaire Mr Trump is likely to get more than twice the number of votes of the next Republican candidate. Senator Bernie Sanders, who beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by a huge margin, said his victory showed people wanted ...

Hong Kong police will hold an inquiry to determine whether it was appropriate for an officer to fire two warning shots during unrest in Mong Kok. Two handgun shots were fired into the air as hundreds of people clashed with police on Monday night. The unrest began when officials began an operation to clear out unlicensed street food stalls. More ...

At least nine people were killed and scores more injured, police say, after two passenger trains collided in the German state of Bavaria. The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km (37 miles) south-east of Munich. The transport minister said the trains had crashed into each other while both travelling at around 100km/h (62mph). Emergency teams, ...

Clashes have broken out in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district as police cleared illegal food stalls set up for Lunar New Year celebrations. Violence erupted overnight as food and hygiene inspectors tried to remove vendors from the junction of Portland Street and Shan Tung Street. Angry protesters threw bricks and other missiles at police. Police used batons and pepper spray ...

The Syrian government has carried out a state policy of extermination against thousands of detainees, UN human rights investigators say. They accuse President Bashar al-Assad’s regime of crimes against humanity, in a report for the UN Human Rights Council. The study says both loyalist and anti-government forces have committed possible war crimes. Many detainees were tortured, some were beaten to ...

Turkish aid workers have been setting up tents and distributing supplies for thousands of new Syrian refugees kept from entering Turkey at the border. Some 35,000 people fled a Syrian government offensive in the Aleppo area last week, trying to enter Turkey’s Kilis border region. But Turkey has so far closed the border to most of them despite appeals by ...

Two people have been pulled alive from the ruins of an apartment building two days after it collapsed in a powerful earthquake in Tainan City in Taiwan. The first was a woman who was officials said was found lying underneath the body of her husband. Their two-year-old son was found dead nearby. Shortly later, a man was also rescued alive, ...

A blast that punched a large hole in the fuselage of a passenger plane at Somalia’s Mogadishu airport on Tuesday was caused by a bomb, officials say. “It was a bomb that exploded in the Daallo Airlines flight. It was meant to kill all aboard,” Transport Minister Ali Ahmed Jamac said. One passenger was sucked out of the plane and ...

At least 124 people remain trapped under the rubble of an apartment block in the Taiwanese city of Tainan after Saturday’s earthquake, officials say. Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te said many of them were buried deep inside the ruins of the 17-storey block. Nineteen people are now confirmed dead following the quake, which struck early on Saturday. The apartment block is ...