Veterinarian Carmen Soto is gently swabbing what is left of Grecia the toucan's bright beak, preparing to fit him with a prosthesis to replace the part hacked off by vandals.
High-profile attacks such as the abduction of 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan are a fraction of what is suffered by girls trying to get an education, the United Nations human rights office said on Monday.
Seeking a more assertive diplomatic and national security role internationally, Japan's Cabinet adopted on Tuesday new guidelines for international aid that for the first time clearly state that it will allow supplying provisions to foreign armed forces, although for nonmilitary purposes only.
Malaysia's highest court upheld a sodomy conviction and five-year jail term on Tuesday for Anwar Ibrahim, throwing the opposition leader's political future into peril with a decision that he angrily denounced as a conspiracy.
An anti-establishment party crushed India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in an election for the Delhi assembly on Tuesday, smashing an aura of invincibility built around Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he swept to power last year.
The captain of the Sewol ferry that sank in April with the loss of 304 lives, mostly students from the same high school, murdered his passengers by intentionally abandoning them to certain death, a South Korean appeals court heard on Tuesday.
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Russia warned on Tuesday that Washington's plans to supply Kiev with arms would further destabilize the situation in Ukraine.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn played down on Tuesday his alleged role in sex parties with prostitutes, telling a French court he did not know they were being paid and that the frequency of the evenings had been wildly exaggerated.
Nigeria insisted on Monday it will crush Boko Haram militants and avoid another election postponement, even as violence raged and the Islamists' leader vowed to defeat the regional force hunting them.
Lasers that shoot down drones with precision and electromagnetic cannons that fire more than 160 kilometers are part of the future of naval warfare, promising to be cheaper to use than conventional weapons, a US admiral said on Tuesday.
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