Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic, teixobactin, that can kill serious infections in mice without encountering any detectable resistance, offering a potential new way to get ahead of dangerous, evolving superbugs.
A German official said Chancellor Angela Merkel's website and several other German government sites have been blocked.
Boston residents in the newly formed United States valued a robust press as much as their history and currency if the contents of a time capsule dating back to a decade after the Revolutionary War are any guide.
Could the sun be your lucky - or unlucky - star?
More than two years after a fire tore through a Karachi clothing factory, killing 255 workers, no one has been prosecuted for one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Pakistani history.
South Korean prosecutors charged the former Korean Air executive in the "nut rage" case on Wednesday with violating aviation security law and hindering a government investigation.
The number of Syrian refugees grew by 704,000 in the first six months of last year to become the largest group under the UN refugee agency's mandate, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.
A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on Wednesday, killing more than 50 people and wounding 20, security officials and medics said, underscoring the country's deteriorating security and a persistent al-Qaida threat.
All 13 people aboard a New Zealand skydiving plane that suffered an apparent engine failure on Wednesday managed to leap out in parachutes moments before the plane plunged into a lake, according to authorities.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the State of Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, a high-stakes move that will enable Palestine to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.
Earth has a few more near-twin planets outside our solar system, offering tantalizing possibilities in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Europe's human rights court began hearing arguments on Wednesday on whether a man in a vegetative state should be taken off life support. The case has torn his family apart and ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.
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