COLCHESTER, England, May 5 (UPI) -- An air ambulance touched down in the elephant pit of England's Colchester Zoo in order to rescue a woman suffering from breathing problems, officials said.
SANDERSTEAD HILL, England, May 5 (UPI) -- A live grenade dating to World War I was found in a garden in England, leading to the evacuation of four homes and a bomb squad being called in, officials said.
WETTEREN, Belgium, May 5 (UPI) -- Teams went door-to-door in Wetteren, Belgium, testing air quality Sunday after a train transporting chemicals derailed and caught fire, an official said.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 5 (UPI) -- The Saudi Arabian education ministry has ruled that girls in the country will be able to participate in sports at private schools, officials said.
PARIS, May 5 (UPI) -- A French ballistic missile malfunctioned during a test launch Sunday and had to be destroyed while in flight, the Ministry of Defense said.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 5 (UPI) -- The death toll from the Bangladesh building collapse has now reached 610 as searchers clear rubble away from the site, officials said.
PALTAN, Bangladesh, May 5 (UPI) -- A series of clashes between police and radical Islamists in Bangladesh Sunday resulted in three deaths and around 50 injuries, authorities said.
NEW DELHI, May 5 (UPI) -- The trial of six defendants charged with raping a woman on a bus in India will conclude at the end of the month, the head of the New Delhi police said Sunday.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, May 5 (UPI) -- Russian hunters found the remains of 10 people at the crash site of a single-engine utility plane that went missing in June in the Urals, officials said.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 5 (UPI) -- North Korean officials said they would not use U.S. national Kenneth Bae -- recently sentenced to 15 years of hard labor -- in political negotiations.
ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 5 (UPI) -- A bomb exploded at a Roman Catholic church in Tanzania Sunday shortly before a bishop and a representative of the Vatican were to perform mass, officials said.
MOSCOW, May 5 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a letter congratulating Orthodox Christians and all Russians who celebrate Easter, officials said.
MUMBAI, May 5 (UPI) -- A nurse who had acid thrown at her face in Mumbai is in critical condition in the hospital's intensive care unit, her family said Sunday.
TOKYO, May 5 (UPI) -- The estimated number of children under the age of 15 in Japan hit a record low of 16.49 million as of April 1, government data indicates.
BEIJING, May 5 (UPI) -- A man attacked and killed two people and injured another with a knife in Beijing, and later died from injuries suffered while resisting arrest, police said.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 5 (UPI) -- Two Turkish passenger ferries collided in a dense fog on the Bosporus Strait, injuring three passengers, officials said.
SEOUL, May 5 (UPI) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye left Sunday for the United States to meet with President Obama to discuss North Korean threats, officials said.
KORGHAN, Afghanistan, May 5 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb in the western Farah province in Afghanistan killed at least four people and injured five others Sunday, officials said.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 5 (UPI) -- General election voting began Sunday in Malaysia in what polls indicated to be the closest election in the country's history.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, May 5 (UPI) -- At least seven people died and 10 were injured Sunday when a car bomb targeted a government convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia, officials said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 5 (UPI) -- Former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad denied reports he had attacked the Palestinian leadership in a recent newspaper interview.
Kentucky Derby winning jockey Joel Rosario, and his mount Orb, both enjoy a quick bath after winning the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, May 4, 2013. UPI/Mark Abraham
