The trial of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sex charges in France - the nation where he once was considered a top presidential contender - was to begin on Monday, local time.
A massive fire that engulfed a tire plant in Thailand's eastern industrial estate caused about $40 million in losses for one of China's largest tire exporters, officials said on Monday.
Mexico has a "serious problem" with disappearances and lacks a comprehensive national list of the missing to effectively deal with it, according to a report the country's National Human Rights Commission was presenting to the United Nations on Monday.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a moving drama about a teenager who befriends a classmate with cancer, won the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday.
Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-born chemist who helped to develop the birth control pill before becoming a playwright and novelist, died in San Francisco on Friday at the age of 91, his family said.
A new Vatican outreach initiative to listen to women hit a sour note before it even got off the ground: The sexy blonde on its Internet promo video came under such ridicule that it was quickly taken down.
A gas-filled balloon co-piloted by an American and a Russian touched down safely in the waters off Mexico on Saturday, completing a weeklong trans-Pacific flight that unofficially broke two world records, a spokeswoman said.
The daughter of late singer Whitney Houston was pulled unconscious from her bathtub on Saturday at her Georgia home, in an eerie echo of her mother's tragic death three years ago.
A professional competitive eater from Chicago downed 444 chicken wings in 30 minutes at the 23rd annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia, narrowly edging his nearest rival and shattering the record of 363 wings set a year earlier.
Billboards still read "Welcome to Arbil, 2014 Arab Tourism Capital", but most of the visitors welcomed by Iraq's Kurdistan region last year were people made homeless by a jihadist offensive.
Behind a wooden counter in downtown Yangon's Coffee Club, the unmistakable hiss of steaming milk briefly drowns out a funky soundtrack piped through a store filled with students glued to smartphones.
Australia's conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott came under renewed leadership pressure on Sunday, a little more than a year into office, following voter backlash in a state poll and a slump in his personal approval rating.
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