Suicide bombing kills 5 at Pakistan police complex

A suicide bomber trying to enter a police complex in eastern Pakistan killed five people Tuesday, officials said, in a rare attack on the relatively peaceful city of Lahore.

The city is the power base of Pakistan's prime minister. The bombing claimed by a Pakistani Taliban splinter group further destabilizes a country already struggling to deal with its militancy problems following the assault on a school in December that killed 150 people and horrified the country.

Train derails after hitting boulder in India, killing 11

A train derailed after hitting a boulder that had fallen on the track in southern India on Friday, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens, officials said.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabu said the boulder fell from a nearby hill and derailed nine coaches and one food car.

7 Romantic And Practical Apps For Couples

Technology is so often the foil to romance: illicit texts are discovered; Netflix shows are covertly watched apart; apps like Tinder threaten to take all the romance out of sex. But there are some apps out there that help, rather than hurt, romance. Here are a few of the virtual equivalents to a dozen red roses.

Couple

Couple is, as advertised, an app specifically designed for couples, and it's incredibly comprehensive. There's private messaging, date planning, shared lists, a live drawing feature, and an almost too cute thumbprint to thumbprint feature. It's free for iPhone and Android.

Crashed AirAsia's tail hoisted from sea in search for boxes

Investigators searching for the crashed AirAsia plane's black boxes lifted the tail portion of the jet out of the Java Sea on Saturday, two weeks after it went down, killing all 162 people on board.

It was not immediately clear whether the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were still inside the tail or had detached when the Airbus A320 plummeted into the sea Dec. 28. Their recovery is essential to finding out why it crashed.

AP PHOTOS: French security forces end 3 days of terror

In this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, an injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting, at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris. Masked gunmen stormed the offices of a French satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing at least 12 people before escaping, police and a witness said. French police hunted down the two heavily armed brothers suspected in the massacre on Friday.  

Biographical information on Sri Lanka's Sirisena

NAME: Maithripala Sirisena (pronounced my-three-PA'-la si-ri-SAY'-na)

AGE-BIRTHPLACE: 63. Born in the village of Yagoda, north of Colombo, but moved in the 1950s with his family to the farming district of Polonnaruwa under a government agriculture development project.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

People watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during New Year celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015.