Russia's state aviation authority said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane was attempting to make an emergency landing. Kazakh authorities said at least 29 people survived.
Protests in Damascus erupted after footage circulated online of an artificial Christmas tree burning in a predominantly Christian city, as masked men stand around it.
After an attacker driving an SUV killed five people, calls for solidarity quickly gave way to criticism from rival lawmakers, ahead of snap elections set for February.
Ministers from Jordan and Qatar were among the first high-ranking Arab diplomats to meet the leader of the rebel coalition that toppled the Syrian regime, as the Arab world seeks to bring Syria back into the fold.
In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of smallpox are spreading in a community that relies on the sale of sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used.
After decades of silence, dozens of elderly people talk about the sexual abuse they suffered in schools run by religious orders. We spoke to four of them.