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China's angry response to Taiwan official's stopovers in US show relations are at all-time low, but how did we get here?

BEIRUT: A Syrian youth suspected of carrying out an attack that killed at least six people in Damascus in July died after he threw himself from a building during a raid in Beirut, Lebanese media and a security source said on Saturday. The 23-year-old from Syria’s Al-Tal region entered Lebanon illegally and settled with his relatives in Al-Salam, a southern suburb of Beirut, the security source said.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says US and NATO risk 'a situation of direct armed confrontation of nuclear powers'.

Breivik, 44, is serving 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in shootings and a bombing attack in Norway in 2011.

Chinese People's Liberation Army exercises were expected following Taiwan Vice President William Lai's stopover in US.

DJANET, Algeria: Deep in the Sahara Desert lies the Algerian oasis of Djanet, one of earth’s more stunning locations where visitors may feel they’ve actually been transported to another planet. Parts of the landscape are more Martian or lunar, with only the blue of the sky giving the game away. Visitors, local and now foreign as well, come to recharge their batteries and explore Djanet, 2,300 km by road southeast of Algiers.

In a press briefing, the UN tallied 2,439 deaths since January, with 5,000 people displaced since last weekend.