A group of Nepalese returned home on Friday after becoming the first all-women team to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
Cow urine may soon be used to clean the floors of India's government offices in a country where bovines are sacred and their bodily waste considered therapeutic and even thirst-quenching.
Indonesian search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings in their efforts to find the black box flight recorders on Friday, an official said, 12 days after the plane went missing with 162 people on board.
In a stunning election result that was unthinkable weeks ago, Sri Lanka's long-time president acknowledged on Friday that he had been defeated by a onetime political ally, signaling the fall of a political dynasty and the rise of former Cabinet minister Maithripala Sirisena.
A deadly attack on a French satirical magazine that lampooned Islam seems certain to fuel rising anti-immigration movements around Europe and inflame a "culture war" about the place of religion and ethnic identity in society.
For years, the radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri delivered incendiary sermons at a London mosque, using words that US and UK authorities say helped inspire a generation of militants, including British would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Russia has passed a controversial law banning transvestites and transsexuals from driving, prompting sharp criticism from rights activists.
A former journalist who wrote stories about women forced into sex slavery by Japan during World War II filed a defamation suit on Friday against a publisher and a scholar who accused him of fabricating the issue.
Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 on Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the plane's crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.
Afghan soldiers were responsible for firing mortars at a wedding party that killed 17 women and children, officials said Friday, in a mistaken strike that overshadowed the transfer of nationwide security from NATO forces.
The US state of California on Friday will start taking driver's license applications from the nation's largest population of immigrants in the country illegally.
Khalil Ibrahim watches from his tent as the orange light of dusk is darkened by a flock of European starlings arriving on their annual migration to northern Iraq. He prepares to trigger his nets as they circle the field, but at the last minute a child throws a stone in the distance and the birds vanish over the dimly lit horizon.
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