Philippine President Benigno Aquino III's performance ratings have plunged to their lowest ever, two independent pollsters said on Monday, as the perception grows that he is not serious enough about fighting corruption.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired artillery shells on Monday into its eastern waters from a region just north of the military demarcation line, a Republic of Korea military official said.
Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, pledged while on a trip to Nigeria to help free a group of schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.
Use of unmanned aircraft is first reported deployment by Hamas
Many airways cancel flights to and from country's main airport
The wreck of the luxury liner Costa Concordia was refloated on Monday, ready to be towed away for scrap, two and a half years after it capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people.
US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed his Iranian counterpart on Monday to make "critical choices", six days before a deadline to cut a historic deal that would finally dispel fears about Teheran's nuclear drive.
Netanyahu: Operation 'might take a long time'; Palestinian toll hits 166
A corruption scandal surrounding former French president Nicolas Sarkozy deepened further on Saturday with fresh leaks of telephone conversations purporting to show he offered to get a judge a plum job in return for favors.
Pornography triggers brain activity in sex addicts similar to the effect drugs have on the brains of drug addicts, researchers said on Friday - but that doesn't necessarily mean porn is addictive.
It was a school once, but there are no children anymore. The lonely building on this remote Pacific island now contains only a punching bag that someone has strung from classroom rafters and a note scrawled on the chalkboard in Niuean: "Keep this place clean," it said, "so it stays beautiful."
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