A pregnant US teenager on trial in Indonesia for the murder of her mother, whose battered body was found stuffed in a suitcase, said she is "petrified" about her future and insists on her innocence.
The de facto embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Japan appears to have won its battle to stay put in its sprawling central Tokyo location, despite having been forced to sell the property.
Gunmen killed 12 people, among them two Filipinos and two Ghanaians, after storming a remote oilfield, a Libyan official said on Wednesday.
Russia is pressing for adoption of a new UN resolution aimed at preventing terrorists from collecting ransom payments or money from the illegal sale of oil or antiquities.
Containing Islamic State may be a more realistic strategy than defeating it, a committee of British lawmakers said, calling on Britain to play a greater role in the fight against the militants in Iraq and Syria.
Shandong's provincial government has lowered its GDP target and shifted its focus to the quality of growth, said Guo Shuqing, governor of the eastern coastal province.
Shandong Governor Guo Shuqing said cultural resources in the province should be better developed and used to offer new strength for local growth.
After successfully treating four Ebola patients last year, Emory University in Atlanta is now leading a government-funded project that will use blood from survivors of the deadly virus to test a novel way of treating infectious disease.
When author Harper Lee and her publisher announced on Tuesday that this summer they will release her second book, a kind of sequel to her enduring best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird, the shock waves were felt in Hollywood as much as they were in the book world.
A 14-year-old schoolgirl jailed for trying to attack Israeli soldiers has become a symbol of Palestinian anger over the arrests of children in the occupied territories.
Scientists said on Wednesday they had amassed the first evidence to back theories that people fall into two broad categories - promiscuous or faithful - when it comes to sex.
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