Witnesses rush to help girls trapped on the second floor of a burning building in the United States.

A sunbaking seal is possibly the last thing you'd expect to see on a stroll through the lush British countryside — but that's exactly what ramblers found on a walk through the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Seven Myanmar soldiers are sentenced to "10 years in prison with hard labour in a remote area" for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vows to work harder to block hate speech in the country.

Plastic bags, sacks of raffia straw, ropes, nets and a drum are among the trash uncovered from the digestive tract of a juvenile sperm whale that washed up on a beach.

Europe's air traffic control agency warns airlines to exercise caution in the eastern Mediterranean due to the possible launch of air strikes into Syria in the coming days.