Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle have spotted the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 10 days after Flight QZ8501 went down with 162 people on board, an official said.
India could face a serious power shortage in the coming days as a five-day strike by coal industry workers entered its second day Wednesday.
Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite National Park.
More than 100 people appear to have been become victims of a hoax, after turning up for a job that did not exist.
Florida's ban on same-sex marriage ended statewide at the stroke of midnight on Monday, and court clerks in some Florida counties wasted no time, issuing marriage licenses overnight to same-sex couples.
The brutal killing of a bull during a popular festival in a town in northern Colombia has sparked indignation and calls for a public debate on traditions involving animal cruelty.
A dozen dogs originally destined for dinner tables in South Korea arrived in the Washington area on Monday to be adopted as pets.
A fierce debate is raging within Israel's military over the extent to which soldiers should be held legally accountable for their actions during last year's Gaza conflict, with commanders increasingly at odds with military lawyers.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to withhold tax money from the Palestinian Authority in response to the latter's bid to join the International Criminal Court on Monday, newspaper Ha'aretz daily reported.
Turkey and the United States are expected to sign a deal this month to train and equip Syrian opposition fighters as part of efforts to battle Islamic State militants in Syria, a foreign ministry official said on Monday.
Thousands of Indians have fled their homes as fighting between India and Pakistan spreads along a 200-kilometer stretch of the Working Boundary in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani marked his first 100 days in power on Tuesday, still struggling to form a government as a new political stalemate threatens to fuel the Taliban insurgency.
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