The teenager sits quietly in a Mumbai rehab clinic, a victim of India's emerging fad for the drug crystal meth, which experts say is spurred by loopholes in the country's giant chemical industry.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal conducted an initial hearing on Wednesday in the latest case against two ailing former senior leaders of Democratic Kampuchea, also known as the Khmer Rouge regime, on charges of genocide.
US President Barack Obama swiftly announced new penalties against Russia on Tuesday, as the European Union approved tougher sanctions.
Russia's central bank is promising to support financial institutions hit by US sanctions as stocks took a tumble on opening in Moscow.
The quiet summer campus of UCLA found itself in chaos, suddenly soaked in water after a major pipe burst and spewed 30 million liters of water, stranding people in parking garages and flooding the school's storied basketball court less than two years after a major renovation.
A leading doctor who risked his own life to treat dozens of Ebola patients died on Tuesday from the disease, officials said, as a major regional airline announced it was suspending flights to the cities hardest hit by an outbreak that has killed more than 670 people.
A major landslide struck a village in western India on Wednesday following heavy monsoon rains, killing at least five people and leaving up to 150 feared trapped, officials said.
Supporters of Venezuela's late president Hugo Chavez on Monday unveiled yet another novel way of keeping his memory alive - a font for typing in "El Comandante's" handwriting style.
A summer camp in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea? It's got one - and it's got everything from giant water slides and a private beach to video games and volleyball courts, along with a big bronze statue of late leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il surrounded by children.
Israel struck symbols of Hamas' control of Gaza and the strip's only power plant on Tuesday, escalating its military campaign against the Islamic militant group with the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far.
Israel has committed "genocide" in the Gaza Strip, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday.
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