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Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock(PARIS) -- A French soldier was stabbed on the outskirts of Paris only days after a gruesome killing of a British soldier on a London street. The soldier was stabbed in the neck with a box cutter on Saturday. He was in uniform at the time of the attack. The soldier was taken to the military hospital Percy in Clamartou, France, and will survive. Authorities do not know who the attacker was. He fled the scene without saying a word, and police are searching for him. The attack was less brutal that the beheading of a British soldier in ... Read more!

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(DALTON-IN-FURNESS, England) -- A zoo worker at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park in England's Lake District has died after being attacked by a tiger on Friday. The victim, 24-year-old Sarah McClay, was described as a very experienced member of staff who had worked with big cats and was proficient and passionate about her job. McClay was attacked around 4 p.m., according to BBC News. “She was doing the job she absolutely loved,” said South Lakes Wild Animal park owner David Gill. No one knows why she walked into the enclosure which was home to the Sumatran tiger that attacked ... Read more!

Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star via Getty Images(TORONTO) -- After a week in virtual hiding and refusing to speak to reporters, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford went on the attack vehemently denying he is a drug user. "I do not use crack-cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack-cocaine.  As for a video, I cannot comment on a video that I've never seen or does not exist," Ford told reporters Friday. Ford's been in the storm of controversy fueling Canadian and international headlines ever since the website Gawker and two Toronto Star newspaper reporters say they saw the video allegedly showing the mayor ... Read more!

Jason Reed/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) -- A powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.The quake’s epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, at a depth of nearly 374 miles.No casualties or significant damage was reported.Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio Read more!

Oli Scarff/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A British Airways flight from London to Oslo made an emergency landing at Heathrow airport Friday morning after a fire broke out shortly after takeoff. Video of the Airbus A319 coming in to land showed smoke streaming from one of the engines. Passenger David Gallagher told ABC News “five minutes after take-off we heard a popping sound. Five minutes after that, the engine was on fire.”Several eyewitnesses on the ground also described seeing an engine on fire. Emergency fire crews were scrambled to meet the aircraft when it landed, and passengers evacuated almost immediately using ... Read more!

iStockphoto(WASHINGTON) -- A 20-year-old American named Kevin Dahlgren accused in the grisly murders of a family of four in the Czech Republic has been arrested in the United States. Czech police had targeted Dahlgren and circulated a picture from his Facebook account to police stations, border posts, immigration counters and media outlets across the country. Authorities in neighboring countries had reportedly been alerted to detain Dahlgren, whose Facebook description says he is from Palo Alto, Calif. Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova told ABC News the suspect may be armed and dangerous. "Police took measures to stop him from leaving the country, ... Read more!

Comstock/Thinkstock(LONDON) -- Two passengers aboard a U.K.-bound flight from Pakistan were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft following an apparent incident over British airspace Friday.The British Ministry of Defense launched two RAF Typhoon jets to escort the Pakistani International Airways flight to Stansted Airport outside London -- an airport designated for emergencies in the U.K.The flight, carrying 297 passengers, originated in Lahore and was bound for Manchester.The plane landed at Stansted without incident. Upon its arrival, police boarded the aircraft and arrested two men “on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft.”The nature of the incident ... Read more!

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(DAMASCUS, Syria) -- Any plan to end the long conflict in Syria is worth considering at this point, no matter how far-fetched it might seem. Opposition activist Moaz al-Khatib, who once led the Syrian National Coalition, is proposing that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be allowed to step down without fear of repercussions. In a Facebook posting, al-Khatib outlined his plan, which would give the embattled Syrian leader three weeks from now to accept "a peaceful transition of authority." When that happens, al-Assad would have a month to hand over the reins of power to either Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi or ... Read more!

Matty Ster/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv via Getty Images(JERUSALEM) -- The U.S. and Great Britain are making a new push to restart peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians that have gone nowhere for the past five years. Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart, Foreign Secretary William Hague, held talks Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Kerry acknowledged the daunting task that lies ahead in getting the two sides to bend after so much intransigence, telling reporters, "I know this region well enough to know that there is skepticism. ... Read more!

iStockphoto(SAYID DKHEEL, Iraq) -- The residents of a southern Iraqi city have to worry about more than a war and deadly militants. The city of Sayid Dkheel is also facing an invasion of snakes, many of them venomous. The snakes, which include cobras, have shown up with the rising temperatures in search of a cooler refuge. Since then, they've reportedly attacked scores of people, leaving 60 dead. To make matters worse, according to residents, the central government in Baghdad has ignored their requests for medicine and proper equipment to treat the often fatal snake bites. Without medical supplies, bites that ... Read more!