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A missing elderly woman, her two great-grandchildren were found at a home destroyed by wildfire

Human remains believed to be that of a missing elderly woman and her two great-grandchildren were found at a home destroyed by a monster wildfire raging in Northern California, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll from the blaze to five.

The

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Island authorities have temporarily closed the hiking trails on Mount Rinjani amid landslide fears

Jakarta, Indonesia: 

A powerful earthquake on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok killed at least 13 people, injured hundreds and damaged thousands of homes on Sunday, officials said.

The shallow 6.4-magnitude quake jolted the island in the early

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North Miami Beach Police fired Ambar Pacheco from the force less than two days later

There was soon to be few chances for Evoni Murray to enjoy a carefree nighttime stroll in Miami Beach.

Murray was eight months pregnant Wednesday. And her Aug. 4 due date loomed as she walked in the sweltering summer heat with the father-to-be.

Then the couple

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An officer sets aside a prisoner belongings at Frankfurt Prison.

A few months before his killing rampage, convicted robber and prison inmate Benjamin Herman had a jailhouse conversion of a sort. A white suburban teen and a nominal Catholic when he was first incarcerated, he emerged in late May as an avowed Islamist who would murder three people

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Travellers gather in front of information boards at the Terminal 2 at Munich airport (AFP)

Berlin, Germany: 

Around 200 flights had to be cancelled and two terminals evacuated at Munich airport on Saturday after an unidentified person entered a secure area, police and the airport said.

The person -- a woman -- made it into a secure area of Terminal 2

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Theodore McCarrick is one of the most prominent American cardinals active on international stage

Vatican: 

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal who is accused of sexually abusing a teenager nearly five decades ago, the Vatican said Saturday.

Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, was removed from the

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