The government of Liberia has announced the reopening of schools that had been closed because of an Ebola outbreak in the country.
California's high-speed rail project reaches a milestone on Tuesday as officials mark the start of work on the first US bullet train, which is designed to whisk travelers at 320 km/h between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours.
Kim Seong-baek was forced to work without pay, day after 18-hour day mining the big salt crystals from the sea-fed fields around him. He ran the first chance he got. Half-blind and in rags, Kim grabbed another slave, and the two men-both disabled-headed for the coast.
Mark Zuckerberg wants to add a little more "book" to Facebook.
The athletes village for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo will be a futuristic "hydrogen town" where electricity and hot water are generated from the abundant element, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
Czech archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a previously unknown queen believed to have been the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre, who ruled 4,500 years ago, officials in Egypt said on Sunday.
A giant bluefin tuna sold for more than $37,000 in the first auction of the year at a Tokyo fish market on Monday, as Japan faces growing pressure to cut back on consumption of the threatened fish.
While illegally crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border, Canadian Peter Douglas was adamant that his incursion was for humanitarian reasons - to help the people of Syria.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that the United States might want to "re-examine" the timetable for removing the remaining US-led coalition troops in the country by the end of 2016.
Palestine's conflict with Israel, mainly after the move to join the International Criminal Court, may heat up and lead to negative consequences, including the dissolving of the Palestinian National Authority, analysts say.
Israel has allocated 70 million shekels ($18 million) to evacuate a border police post in order to build 300 more housing units in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, Israeli Television reported on Sunday.
Firefighters raced to contain a major blaze on Monday before the return of strong winds and a heatwave, following the loss of 26 homes in the worst brushfire conditions in South Australia in 30 years.
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