Incidents

More than 1,000 infants - most of them girls - were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year, the agency reports.

An 8,000lb elephant at a Tennessee zoo backed a trainer into a wall and crushed her to death, the agency reports.

A woman in Pavlodar left her one-year-old child in a taxi. The baby was in a taxi for an hour, the agency reports.

At least 93 members of a major drug trafficking group were detained in Russia's southern Urals republic of Bashkortostan on Wednesday, an official said, RIA Novosti reports.

A Turkish doctor detained for alleged links to an international organ-trafficking organization based in Kosovo was released Wednesday pending trial, HurriyetDailyNews reports.

A gang which trafficked mainly Afghan migrants into Europe has been broken, European police force Europol has said, BBC reports.

A Turkish doctor Yusuf Ercin Sonmez reportedly suspected of involvement in an international organ smuggling ring was arrested Tuesday in Istanbul's Kartal district, an officer with the financial crimes department of Istanbul Police said, CNN reports.

California wildlife officials are trying to figure out what caused the death of more than 100 birds found clustered together just off Highway 101, the Associated Press reports.

A man charged with trying to assassinate a US congresswoman in a shooting that left six people dead and more than a dozen wounded has appeared in federal court in Phoenix, Arizona, BBC reports.

A Turkish military helicopter has crashed near the capital, Ankara, while on a night vision training flight, killing all the five officers on board, Press TV reports.