Ringed with snipers and sandbag bunkers, the makeshift office of a Kabul academic spearheading President Ashraf Ghani's unprecedented anti-corruption drive could be mistaken for a military garrison.
France was in shock on Thursday after a 9-year-old girl was found dead in the woods shortly after being snatched in front of her mother from a playground in the northern city of Calais.
South Korea's president vowed to raise the sunken Sewol ferry on Thursday, but failed to appease grieving relatives on the anniversary of the disaster that claimed 304 lives, most of them schoolchildren.
The United States and Cuba will open talks about two longtime fugitives as part of a new dialogue about law-enforcement cooperation made possible by President Barack Obama's decision to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terror, the State Department announced on Wednesday.
The European Parliament backed a motion on Wednesday that calls the massacre a century ago of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces "genocide".
Three new species of multicolored lizards sporting jagged crests that make them look like miniature "Godzillas" have been discovered in Ecuador and Peru, highlighting the region's rich biodiversity.
His voice is warm, his reading poised. Adored by reggae fans everywhere, Ivorian superstar Alpha Blondy has now become a storyteller on his own radio station.
SpaceX launched a shipment of groceries to the International Space Station on Tuesday, including the first espresso maker bound for orbit. But the private company's third attempt to land a leftover booster on an ocean platform failed.
Australia's biggest supermarket chain apologized on Wednesday and pulled down a website that has been widely criticized for commercializing the centenary of the country's Veterans Day.
Eight former Atlanta public school educators were ordered on Tuesday to serve between one and seven years in prison after being convicted on racketeering charges in one of the nation's largest test-cheating scandals.
More than 100 relatives of victims of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster tearfully cast flowers into the sea on Wednesday at an emotional memorial event on the eve of the tragedy's anniversary.
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