India announced Sunday a general election to be held over nearly six weeks starting on April 11, when hundreds of millions of voters will cast ballots in the world's biggest democracy.
Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido will ask lawmakers on Monday to declare a "state of alarm" over the country's devastating blackout in order to facilitate the delivery of international aid -- a chance to score points in his power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro.
Ethiopian Airlines says the pilot of a crashed passenger plane had reported a problem and asked to turn back before the aircraft went down near Addis Ababa on Sunday.
China on Monday ordered domestic airlines to suspend commercial operation of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, citing the Ethiopian Airlines crash and another deadly accident of that same model in Indonesia.
Buildings of a high school in northeastern Japan that were heavily damaged in the 2011 tsunami have opened to the public as a memorial to the disaster.
People have gathered in Venezuela's capital Caracas to protest the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro. They responded to calls by opposition leader Juan Guaido.
