At least 15 civilians including four children were killed in airstrikes in Syria's al-Raqqa city, a UK-based war monitoring group reported on Saturday. ....

A man arrested after a stolen truck ploughed into pedestrians on a busy Stockholm street is being held on suspicion of terror offences and is likely to be the driver of the truck, authorities said on Saturday. ....

Two earthquakes measuring 5.9 and 5.7 on the Richter scale struck Luzon island in the Philippines on Saturday, officials said. ....

Ten militants from the Jamaat-ul Ahrar militant group were killed in a military opperation in Pakistan's Punjab province on Friday night, police said. ....

The US is "disappointed but not surprised" at Russia's response to its strikes on a Syrian airbase suspected of storing chemical weapons, a media report said on Saturday. ....

Forty passengers have survived the vessel collision in a Myanmar river that killed 20, police said on Saturday. ....

One victim died in hospital, raising the death toll of the Stockholm attack on Friday to four, while the number of wounded reached 15, Swedish Television said on Friday. ....

Condemning the US missile strike in Syria, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday said the action puts Moscow and Washington "on the verge of a military clash." ....

Sweden will not be cowed by "these heinous murderers," Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Friday after a truck attack in Stockholm killed four. ....

Hundreds of civilians trying to escape from the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul were killed by the Islamic State earlier this week, with bodies being hung from electrical poles across the city, according to a report from the region on Friday. ....