Could the sun be your lucky - or unlucky - star?
More than two years after a fire tore through a Karachi clothing factory, killing 255 workers, no one has been prosecuted for one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Pakistani history.
South Korean prosecutors charged the former Korean Air executive in the "nut rage" case on Wednesday with violating aviation security law and hindering a government investigation.
The number of Syrian refugees grew by 704,000 in the first six months of last year to become the largest group under the UN refugee agency's mandate, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.
A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on Wednesday, killing more than 50 people and wounding 20, security officials and medics said, underscoring the country's deteriorating security and a persistent al-Qaida threat.
All 13 people aboard a New Zealand skydiving plane that suffered an apparent engine failure on Wednesday managed to leap out in parachutes moments before the plane plunged into a lake, according to authorities.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the State of Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, a high-stakes move that will enable Palestine to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.
Earth has a few more near-twin planets outside our solar system, offering tantalizing possibilities in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Europe's human rights court began hearing arguments on Wednesday on whether a man in a vegetative state should be taken off life support. The case has torn his family apart and ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.
Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle have spotted the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 10 days after Flight QZ8501 went down with 162 people on board, an official said.
India could face a serious power shortage in the coming days as a five-day strike by coal industry workers entered its second day Wednesday.
Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite National Park.
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