Anti-government protesters in Thailand have dispersed for the first time since the country's political crisis began six months ago. Army troops who staged a coup on Thursday asked the demonstrators to go home, and thousands of people peacefully left a rally site near a building housing the seat of government.
Two police officers, a rabbi and a Boy Scout leader are among 70 men and one woman arrested on child pornography charges in the largest such bust in New York, officials said on Wednesday.
Police officers went on a 24-hour strike in eight Brazilian states and the capital on Wednesday, demanding better pay and working conditions, raising security concerns less than a month before the opening match of the World Cup.
The operator of Japan's destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant began releasing groundwater that it said is within legal radiation safety limits into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, in a bid to manage huge amounts of radioactive water built up at the site.
A species of snake that had been "lost" for almost 80 years has been re-discovered on a remote Mexican island.
France's national rail company SNCF said on Tuesday it had ordered 2,000 trains for an expanded regional network that are too wide for many station platforms, entailing costly repairs.
The provincial government of Guangdong signed an agreement with the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in Guangzhou last year to turn Guangdong into the nation's first model province for developing a low-carbon economy and eco-cities by the year 2020.
Guangdong's government is striving to improve its quality of growth by focusing on ecological protection in urbanization.
Back-to-back bomb blasts killed at least 118 people and wounded 45 in the crowded business district of the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday, in an attack that appeared to bear the hallmarks of Boko Haram insurgents, emergency services said.
A Cairo court convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years in prison.
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