Days after deporting a Korean-American woman for praising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, authorities in the Republic of Korea arrested a fellow activist and former leftist politician on similar charges on Wednesday.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen marked 30 years in power on Wednesday, one of only a handful of political leaders worldwide who have managed to stay in power that long.
India's top court on Wednesday granted an Italian marine's request for extended medical leave abroad. He and a fellow marine were held in India without formal charges for almost three years over the 2012 shooting of two Indian fishermen.
A team of scientists halted a bid to drill a 1.3-kilometer-deep hole into the Alpine Fault in New Zealand's South Island because of equipment problems, but they said on Wednesday the hole had already yielded a lot of information about earthquake processes.
Mexican officials have issued an arrest warrant for the former mayor of a southern city for the kidnapping of 43 students at a teaching college.
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo to be published after the deadly attacks by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes at newspaper kiosks around France on Wednesday, with people lining up to buy copies to support the satirical weekly.
Yemen's al-Qaida branch claimed responsibility on Wednesday for last week's deadly attack on a Paris satirical weekly, with one of its top commanders saying the assault was in revenge for its publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, considered an insult in Islam.
Google began turning smartphones into real-time language translators - of written and spoken content - on Wednesday.
For women who have survived breast cancer, breast or nipple reconstruction can be a first step toward looking like their old selves. But there's another route.
After years of war forced it into near silence, Damascus' once-thriving Opera House is slowly coming back to life, bringing respite and a little culture to residents of Syria's capital.
A large majority of Americans support the labeling of genetically modified food, whether they care about eating it or not.
The Cold War finally came to an end in Switzerland late last year.
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