Health authorities committed 11.5 million pounds ($17.4 million) on Monday for a plan to tackle Britain's persistent tuberculosis problem, seeking to wipe the contagious lung disease out altogether.
Actors from the movie Selma marched with hundreds of people on Sunday to mark one of the bloodiest chapters in the United States civil rights movement, as the country prepared to commemorate the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
The housing project that was home to Amedy Coulibaly is a concrete labyrinth so scary that doctors refuse to make house calls and mail workers will not deliver parcels.
Albanians with over 100,000 lek ($833) of unpaid electric bills risk losing their houses, Albanian Daily News reported on Monday.
Rebel Shiite Houthis battled soldiers near Yemen's presidential palace and elsewhere across the capital on Monday, even though officials claimed a cease-fire had been reached to halt the violence.
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday he had not ordered his military-dominated legislature to vote against ousted former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra when her impeachment hearing concludes this week.
Station managers in Australia have urged all truck drivers to remain with their vehicles if they break down in remote areas, after a second man died trying to find help on foot.
A South Korean teenager who went missing in Turkey near the Syrian border had images of what appeared to be Islamic State militants on his home computer, the police said on Monday. It is thought he may have joined the group.
Canberra is pursuing efforts to save two convicted Australians from the firing squad in Indonesia, Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop said on Monday, following the execution of six drug offenders in the capital Jakarta.
The United States and Cuba will hold their highest level talks in decades on Wednesday to pave the way to reopen embassies and normalize ties.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the parties involved in the Ukraine crisis to spare no effort in peacefully settling the situation.
One of Ireland's most prominent politicians announced on Sunday that he is gay, becoming the first openly homosexual Cabinet minister in Irish history, four months before a referendum on same-sex marriage in the traditionally Catholic country.
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