A professional competitive eater from Chicago downed 444 chicken wings in 30 minutes at the 23rd annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia, narrowly edging his nearest rival and shattering the record of 363 wings set a year earlier.
Billboards still read "Welcome to Arbil, 2014 Arab Tourism Capital", but most of the visitors welcomed by Iraq's Kurdistan region last year were people made homeless by a jihadist offensive.
Behind a wooden counter in downtown Yangon's Coffee Club, the unmistakable hiss of steaming milk briefly drowns out a funky soundtrack piped through a store filled with students glued to smartphones.
Australia's conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott came under renewed leadership pressure on Sunday, a little more than a year into office, following voter backlash in a state poll and a slump in his personal approval rating.
Mexico's government has cut its 2015 budget by nearly 3 percent after a drop in global prices hurt public finances, and it is shelving a tainted $3.75 billion high-speed train tender as part of its austerity measures.
A foreigner was allegedly among the fatalities in the recent gunbattle that killed 49 police officers and 18 Muslim militants in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, a Muslim group said on Sunday.
The Japanese, who inhabit one of the safest countries in the world, have been reminded in a brutal fashion that the world is a dangerous place.
The National Football League, which will crown its champion on Sunday in the quintessential American sporting spectacle of Super Bowl 49, is gaining fans globally - with China leading the way.
Bath or bar?: Despite being at the top of her game for a decade, Maria Sharapova admits she still gets nervous at big tournaments.
A group of black civil rights activists was exonerated on Wednesday in the United States, more than 50 years after being condemned to hard labor for sitting in a whites-only area of a restaurant.
Renowned for a scarcity of taxis and for grumpy drivers, Paris is fertile ground for new transportation apps such as Uber, but traditional cabbies are not giving up without a fight.
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