Daniela Deane The Washington Post

A hijacker who commandeered an Egyptian plane to Cyprus was taken into custody Tuesday after a nearly six-hour standoff touched off by unclear motives, officials said.

An Egyptian commerical airliner carrying dozens of passengers and several crewmembers was hijacked by a passenger who threatened he had an explosive belt and forced to land in Cyprus Tuesday, according to the country's civil aviation authority.

More than a dozen people were killed and many others injured after apparently coordinated explosions rocked Brussels' airport and a metro station Tuesday, raising fears that attackers carried out retaliatory strikes after the arrest of a key suspect in last year's Paris massacre.

Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity has pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study showed Friday.

Scraps of suggestive but inconclusive evidence surfaced Tuesday in the fourth day of a tense investigation into the Russian plane's falling over Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people aboard and scattering debris over seven square miles of desert.

Scraps of tantalizing but inconclusive evidence surfaced Tuesday in the fourth day of a tense investigation into the Russian plane that crashed over Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula last weekend, killing all 224 aboard.

Russian warplanes began airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, adding an unpredictable new element to a multi-layered war that has already drawn in the United States and allies, created millions of refugees and opened room for gains by the Islamic State.

A hijacker who commandeered an Egyptian plane to Cyprus was taken into custody Tuesday after a nearly six-hour standoff touched off by unclear motives, officials said.

An Egyptian commerical airliner carrying dozens of passengers and several crewmembers was hijacked by a passenger who threatened he had an explosive belt and forced to land in Cyprus Tuesday, according to the country's civil aviation authority.

More than a dozen people were killed and many others injured after apparently coordinated explosions rocked Brussels' airport and a metro station Tuesday, raising fears that attackers carried out retaliatory strikes after the arrest of a key suspect in last year's Paris massacre.

Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity has pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study showed Friday.

Scraps of suggestive but inconclusive evidence surfaced Tuesday in the fourth day of a tense investigation into the Russian plane's falling over Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people aboard and scattering debris over seven square miles of desert.

Scraps of tantalizing but inconclusive evidence surfaced Tuesday in the fourth day of a tense investigation into the Russian plane that crashed over Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula last weekend, killing all 224 aboard.

Russian warplanes began airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, adding an unpredictable new element to a multi-layered war that has already drawn in the United States and allies, created millions of refugees and opened room for gains by the Islamic State.