English Defence League supporters took to the streets of Woolwich and threw missiles at police after the suspected terrorist killing earlier in the day. Elsewhere, two men were arrested following separate attacks on mosques.

Ibragim Todashev, shot dead early Wednesday by the FBI in Florida, was "directly involved" in a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, a law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday.

United States Attorney General Eric Holder has told Congress that four American citizens have been killed in Yemen and Pakistan by US drones since 2009.

The Japanese Embassy in Seoul has issued a protest over the editorial column in the South Korean newspaper "JoongAng Ilbo”, in which the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are called a "divine punishment".

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Wednesday handed over a letter from President Vladimir Putin to US President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in the United States said. The letter is a response to Obama’s message that US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon brought to Moscow in April.

The U.S. Attorney General has thanked Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs for aid in the Boston bombings case.

An Army sergeant at the U.S. Military Academy has been accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers at West Point, a defense official said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of sex-related incidents that has rocked the armed forces.

An interview with Slobodan Eric, editor-in-chief of the Serbian «Geopolitics» magazine.

Syrian rebels killed at least 40 soldiers and other fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad as they captured a military base in the northwestern province of Idlib Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

President Vladimir Putin believes Russia’s spectrum of ethnic groups, cultures and faiths is a great boon for the country’s development.

Anti-immigration sentiment is nothing new in the West, and now it is also on the rise in Russia, as the country has to make up for its demographic shortfalls by importing guest labour from former Soviet Central Asia. Polls suggest anti-immigrant rallies and even riots may be around the corner. In the meantime, a report issued by the agency Interfax raises the specter of an even more sinister threat.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin believes that the authorities should care more about the welfare of scientists, teachers and students. This would raise the prestige of the professions of a scientist and a teacher, Mr. Putin says.

The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved a memorandum applying for observer status in the Customs Union, a Moscow-based trade bloc comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said.

This year is likely to bring a draft agreement, first proposed in 2008, for the EU countries to share information about interest accrued on deposits held in banks.

EU leaders agreed Wednesday that the automatic sharing of individuals' bank account data, a key measure to prevent tax evasion, should come into effect by the end of the year, European President Herman Van Rompuy said.

Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.

David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.

A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)

An 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber who has had four heart surgeries reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday becoming the oldest person to conquer the world's highest mountain.

American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published.

English Defence League supporters took to the streets of Woolwich and threw missiles at police after the suspected terrorist killing earlier in the day. Elsewhere, two men were arrested following separate attacks on mosques.