Escalating tension over Russia's annexation of Crimea, seven Western powers ousted Moscow from the G-8 and moved to shift the group's planned June summit in Sochi to a G7 meeting in Brussels.
More than 30 people were injured when a commuter train derailed Monday morning at the underground station of an airport in the US city of Chicago.
Japan will hand over "hundreds of kilograms of sensitive nuclear material" to the US for destruction as part of the efforts to "help prevent unauthorised actors, criminals, or terrorists from acquiring such materials," the White House said Monday.
The Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing March 8 with 239 people on-board shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, it is officially announced in Kuala Lumpur Monday, ended in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors.
The Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people on board that went missing March 8 "is lost" and there are no hopes of survivors, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced Monday.
Japanese search and rescue teams joined Chinese aircraft Sunday in the hunt for signs of missing Malaysian plane -- MH370 -- which has mysteriously vanished.