Belgium is the latest European country to mandate raising the age of retirement.
An Australian woman has been found alive after spending 17 days lost in remote bushland in far north Queensland in an extraordinary tale of survival.
Many US coastal communities already struggle with flooding at high tides, a problem that will become "chronic" in the coming 15 years due to global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea offered UN delegations on Tuesday its own lengthy report on Pyongyang's human rights record and repeated its dismissal of a United Nations investigation report released earlier this year as "wild rumors" peddled by "hostile forces".
The Republic of Korea's Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said on Wednesday that Seoul would be able to talk with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea about economic sanctions and a resumption of tours to Mount Kumgang during the upcoming senior-level inter-Korean dialogue.
An Indian state has required the teaching of self-defense techniques for schoolgirls because of rampant harassment and violence against women, local media said on Wednesday.
The Japan-US alliance should maintain its bilateral nature rather than expand to undermine any third party's interests, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Wednesday.
A new geological fault capable of generating a magnitude-7.1 earthquake has been found in Wellington, confirming the New Zealand capital's status as one of the world's most seismically active cities, scientists revealed on Wednesday.
Investigators confirmed on Wednesday that the priority search area for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has moved farther south as end-of-flight scenarios indicated it may have spiraled into the Indian Ocean.
An international medical official with the UN Mission in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus and is receiving treatment, the UN said on Wednesday.
At least 19 people were killed on Wednesday as pro-Kurdish protests raged across Turkey over the government's failure to act against jihadists attacking the majority-Kurdish Syrian border city of Kobane.
A German and two US scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for smashing the size barrier in optical microscopes, allowing researchers to see individual molecules inside living cells.
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