The Netherlands, a country with only half its land exceeding 1 meter above sea level, will strengthen weak links along its northwestern coastal area by 2016 with an innovative "sand solution".
The end of the road for the fugitive "imperial couple" who owned jewelry stores and ruled a southern Mexican city came in a scruffy working-class neighborhood of the nation's capital.
A Cuban court sentenced six teachers and an employee of the Ministry of Higher Education to prison terms ranging from 18 months to eight years for stealing and selling university entrance exam papers, the official newspaper Granma reported on Tuesday.
Climate change, not disease or hunting, could be the main cause of a decline in the numbers of Tasmanian devils, according to researchers in Australia.
Australia's reformist Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam was commemorated on Wednesday at a packed state memorial service at Sydney Town Hall.
Mongolian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to remove Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag amid concerns about a serious economic downturn as a result of the falling prices of gold, copper and coal, and a slump in foreign direct investment.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Wednesday reported mixed progress in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, pointing to encouraging signs in Liberia and a more worrisome trend in neighboring Sierra Leone.
A South Korean court has convicted three relatives of the sunken ferry's owner for corruption, about four months after the fugitive tycoon was found dead.
A bus packed with teenagers on their way to school collided with an oil tanker truck in northern Egypt on Wednesday, killing 16 people, police and medics said. The crash, near the Nile Delta city of Damanhur, injured another 18 people.
The United Arab Emirates has the world's tallest building, an artificial indoor ski slope and man-made islands shaped like the world. Dubai's fleet of police cars includes a $2.5 million Bugatti Veyron and a $500,000 Lamborghini Aventador.
Ten million people worldwide have no nationality, leaving them in a devastating legal limbo, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday, launching a campaign to eradicate statelessness within a decade.
British sailors used to swagger out of this great naval port at the zenith of the British Empire, manning the warships that protected merchant ships and kept the shipping lanes of the world open to the trade that made Great Britain rich and powerful.
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