Thousands of wine lovers braved the cold to get the first sip of this year's Beaujolais Nouveau in its hometown as part of a time-honored tradition to celebrate the arrival of the young French wine.
Ann Khalid did not feel well, but she insisted on dancing a brief scene from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with her classmates. The 12-year-old is determined to one day have a career both dancing and teaching ballet, not an easy path in a country torn by conflict.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Thursday denounced a UN resolution on human rights in the country and indicated it might conduct a new nuclear test to counter "US hostile policy" toward Pyongyang.
With a deadline for an Iranian nuclear deal fast approaching, US Secretary of State John Kerry embarked on a frenzy of high-stakes diplomacy on Wednesday in a last-minute push to secure an agreement - or at least prevent the process from collapsing.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives risked losing a second parliamentary seat to the anti-EU UKIP party on Thursday, foreshadowing a possible political upheaval in next year's national election.
Cloth diapers, baking soda to make deodorant and vinegar to mop the floor is not the shopping list of an eco-friendly hipster but how an increasing number of resourceful Venezuelans are making do in a time of severe shortages.
Richard Johnson can see right through masterpieces by Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
A 67-year-old millionairess was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of poisoning her husband with cyanide in Japan's latest apparent "black widow" case.
A day after two militants killed four rabbis and a policeman at a synagogue in Jerusalem, Israeli forces destroyed the house of a Palestinian who was shot dead last month after mowing down commuters with his car at a Jerusalem tram stop.
Australia's government on Wednesday defended its decision to stop asylum seekers who pass through Indonesia from settling in Australia, a move that could leave Indonesia with thousands of refugees from the Middle East.
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