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At least 50 people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in northern Nigeria, police told. The attack happened in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State as worshipers were gathering for the "fajr" dawn prayer around 5:20 a.m. local time, Othman Abubakar, a police spokesman said. The bomber was about 17 years old, Abubakar added. Many more people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals.

The 7.3-magnitude quake that struck in the remote border area between Iran and Iraq late Sunday left thousands of people injured hundreds of villages destroyed. Iran's Olympic weightlifting champion Kianoush Rostami has put his gold medal up for auction to raise money for the victims of Sunday's earthquake which left at least 452 people dead in Iran and Iraq. The earthquake, the deadliest of the year, was felt as far away as Turkey and Pakistan. Rostami, who won gold at the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016, says the disaster has left him desperate to help those affected. "I consider it my duty to take a step, however small, to help my beloved fellow countrymen who have suffered as a result of the quake," Rostami said. "I am returning the gold medal, which is theirs by right, to my people. I will auction off the medal and use the proceeds to help the quake victims."

Transport officials said a moving train collided with a stationary faulty train at the elevated Joo Koon station in the far west of the city-state. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said the injured passengers were taken to the hospital, with most sustaining minor injuries. At least 25 people were injured in a train collision in Singapore on Wednesday, officials said. "At 8.19am, a second train stopped behind the first faulty train. At 8.20am, the second train moved forward unexpectedly, and came into contact with the first train," regulator Land Transport Authority (LTA) and train operator SMRT said in a joint statement. It added that 23 passengers and two SMRT employees "sustained light to moderate injuries" and have been sent to nearby hospitals. Densely populated Singapore's metro system has been hit by repeated delays and breakdowns in recent years, generating public anger in a financial centre in which the cost of car owne...

A man killed two neighbors with whom he had been feuding before he went on a shooting rampage on Tuesday in Northern California. Police said surveillance video shows the shooter unsuccessfully trying to enter a nearby elementary school after quick-thinking staff members locked the outside doors and barricaded themselves inside when they heard gunshots. The gunman driving stolen vehicles and choosing his targets at random opened fire “without provocation”, killing four people and wounding at least 10 others, including a student at an elementary school, before police shot him dead. Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said the gunman spent about six minutes shooting into Rancho Tehama Elementary School before driving off to continue shooting elsewhere. Johnston said one student was shot and injured and is expected to survive. The gunman left the school after he could not get inside and purposely crashed the stolen truck he was driving into another vehic...