As search crews struggle to recovery victims of doomed AirAsia Flight 8501, about 100 relatives stayed at the Surabaya Airport in Indonesia, where the pastor of a local church prayed with them on New Year's Eve.
Frigid temperatures didn't freeze out New Year's celebrations across the world as millions took to the streets in multiple cities to celebrate the end of 2014 and start of 2015.
Rich people in France are breathing a sigh of relief now that the country's super tax was dropped Wednesday.
In the Philippines, at least 53 people are dead after Tropical Storm Jangmi hit the island country Monday.
The Pentagon has released five more detainees from the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The rush is on to find the black boxes from AirAsia Flight 8501, which went down with 162 people on board Sunday. Meanwhile, the families of those who died in the crash gathered to pray Wednesday.
A watchdog group says the Islamic State has killed nearly 2,000 people over the past six months, the majority of them civilians.
Recovery crews have spotted bloated bodies and debris floating in Indonesian waters Tuesday, bringing the search for the missing AirAsia flight that crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people aboard to a grim end.
An appeals court in Iran has thrown out the convictions of three pastors accused of committing crimes against national security, according to the Christian News Network.
The 13-year-long U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan has come to an end even as thousands of Afghans are running to take shelter from the Taliban.