As a result of the crash of a Cessna C550 business jet on landing at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina (USA), five adults and two children were killed.
Security forces evacuated 25 journalists trapped in the editorial offices of the Daily Star and Prothom Alo newspapers, which were set on fire during protests in Bangladesh.
A boat crash killed 14 Egyptian citizens while trying to illegally enter the Greek island of Crete.
A three-storey residential building collapsed in the Yafabad district of the Iranian capital Tehran.
The number of Thai soldiers killed during the border conflict with Cambodia has increased from 17 to 19. This was announced by the second military district of the Thai Land Forces.
On Tuesday morning, a teenager attacked people with a knife at a school in the village of Gorki-2, Moscow Region (Russian Federation).
In Iran, 13 people were killed and 11 people were injured as a result of a road accident involving a bus on the Isfahan-Natanz highway.
On December 15, a 35-meter-high copy of the Statue of Liberty installed in front of a Havan store in the city of Guaiba, Rio Grande do Sul state, collapsed during a severe storm.
At least six people died as a result of a private business jet crash near the International Airport of Toluca city, in Mexico State.
The number of flood victims in Safi province in western Morocco has increased to 21