As Poles mark 70 years since insurgents launched a valiant but bloody and doomed rebellion against the Nazis, the Warsaw Uprising is still very much alive in hearts and minds.
If someone were to create an award for the animal kingdom's mother of the year, a remarkably dedicated eight-limbed mom from the dark and frigid depths of the Pacific Ocean might be a strong contender.
Deadly strikes on buildings used by civilians to shelter are condemned
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing international alarm over a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, said on Thursday he would not accept any cease-fire that stopped Israel completing the destruction of militants' infiltration tunnels.
Rescuers using earth-moving equipment and their bare hands dug through heavy mud and debris on Thursday after a landslide engulfed an entire village in western India, killing at least 30 people and leaving about 100 missing and feared dead.
An independent legal panel called on Thursday for criminal charges to be brought against three former executives of the Fukushima nuclear plant operator for their role in the 2011 atomic disaster.
At least 21 bathers drowned in rough seas off Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, after they defied a ban on swimming during the monsoon season, officials said on Thursday.
European, Asian nations on alert; epidemic said to be out of control
The president of Sierra Leone declared a public health emergency as the Ebola virus, blamed for nearly 700 deaths, spread across West Africa. He vowed to quarantine sick patients at home and conduct house-to-house searches for others who may have been exposed.
More countries have closed embassies and evacuated their nationals from warring Libya as the security situation continues to deteriorate.
The OSCE security and rights organization said its monitors, accompanied by Dutch and Australian experts, reached the crash site of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, two weeks after the plane came down.
Argentina was in default on Thursday for the second time in 13 years after the failure of last-ditch talks with US hedge funds it has branded "vultures."
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