Events

A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday (May 22), in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

The Friends of Syria alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday (May 23) to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability.

Police evacuated Paris' Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday (May 21) after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth in front of its main altar, a police source said.

A roadside bomb blast killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday (May 23) in southwestern Pakistan, where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region's natural gas and other resources.