Incidents

US authorities have charged a 22-year-old man over Saturday's Arizona shooting in which a congresswoman was seriously wounded and six people died, BBC reports.

More than 80 birds have been found dead in a small town west of Quebec City, the Canadian press reports.

Iranian passenger plane with more than 100 people on board has crashed in north-western Iran, killing at least 72, officials say, BBC reports.

The former boss of BP Tony Hayward has admitted that the company was "not prepared" to deal with fallout over the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the media "feeding frenzy" surrounding it, BBC reports.

Dozens of dead birds have been found lying in a residential street in Sweden, days after thousands of birds fell to their deaths in the US, BBC reports.

A moderate earthquake rattled southern Iran Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, Kazakhstan Today informs citing CNN News.

Authorities in Argentina's capital are searching for at least three people who allegedly broke into a bank through an underground tunnel, Kazakhstan Today reports citing CNN.

The earthquake occured in the Almaty oblast. There are no casualties, the agency reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Emergency of Kazakhstan.