The average price for regular gasoline in San Diego County rose another 3.5 cents Thursday to $5.21 per gallon. Gas prices have gone up for 17 straight days.
Siberian artist Vasily Slonov, known for producing a series of puppets challenging Russia's Soviet past and current government, was detained on February 8 on a charge of demonstrating extremist symbols, his wife said, adding that police searched her husband's workshop and the couple's apartment.
Swiss police say a 32-year-old Iranian asylum seeker was killed by police after he used an axe and a knife to seize more than a dozen hostages for several hours on a train in western Switzerland.
A gunman shot four people dead and wounded another at a market in Georgia's southeastern city of Rustavi, the Interior Ministry of the Caucasus country said on February 9.
Pakistanis flocked to the polls on February 8 for parliamentary elections that are taking place with the country embroiled in an upsurge of violence as well as political and economic turmoil.