Japan's controversial Special Secrecy Law took effect on Wednesday, with 55 categories of information touching diplomacy, defense, anti-terrorism and counterespionage being defined as state secrets, amid strong public opposition.
Australia outlined plans to tackle online piracy on Wednesday as it moves to end the country's position as one of the world's top illegal downloaders of television shows such as Game of Thrones.
The Uber taxi driver being held on suspicion of raping a passenger in India is a repeat criminal who was out on bail for sexually assaulting a woman, Indian police said, raising fresh concerns about the safety of using the US web-based cab company.
Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles sued Uber on Tuesday over the ride-booking company's background checks of drivers and other allegations, adding to the popular startup company's worldwide legal woes.
The document on a regional railway designed to link China with Iran via Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, was signed, Tajikistan's Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday.
The United States brutalized scores of terror suspects with interrogation tactics that turned secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make the country safer after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, Senate investigators have concluded.
A senior Palestinian minister died on Wednesday after being assaulted by Israeli border police during a protest march in the West Bank, medical and security sources said.
Panfilo, the elderly protagonist in a weekly show on Cuban television, has a broken water pipe in his house. When the city repair worker says it'll take six months to fix, Panfilo bribes her with a bottle of shampoo and the repair is made the following day.
As night settles over India's capital, a dozen volunteers lie in soundproof cubicle tents, playing soothing music via Skype to try and lull to sleep collaborators in a German city halfway across the world.
Japanese fast-food company Yoshinoya Holdings Co said on Tuesday it would raise the price of its signature beef bowl dish - long a symbol of the deflationary economy - for the first time in 24 years because of higher import costs.
Britain's Prince William sat down with President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday and unveiled an effort to curtail illegal wildlife trading, while his wife, Kate, made an impression as a down-to-earth duchess with preschoolers and prominent British expats in New York.
Western Australia's controversial shark-culling policy has been influenced by Jaws and other Hollywood films, an Australian academic said on Tuesday.
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