Six members of a family including two women and a child were killed in a road accident in Eechanahalli village near Hassan town on Sunday, police said.
At least five migrants, including a child, died overnight trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain on their overcrowded small boat, local authorities said.
Eight civilians, including a child, were killed Monday during exchanges of fire between the army and rebels in northwestern Syria, with 19 others wounded, a war monitor said.
A fire broke out Saturday in a building in a northern Paris suburb, killing three women and injuring seven others, including a child who is in critical condition, officials said.