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.
Model and TV host Janice Dickinson added her name to the women who have accused comic Bill Cosby of sexual assault.
The number of young people in the world has reached a new peak, and this could bring unprecedented economic gains, the United Nations Population Fund said on Tuesday.
Torrential rain in Albania has cut supplies of power and water in the western part of the country, and authorities are investigating media reports that three people have died.
A ferocious storm dumped massive piles of snow on parts of upstate New York, trapping residents in their homes and stranding motorists on roads, as temperatures in all 50 US states fell to freezing or below.
Brazil's one-time richest man, whose rise to No 7 on the Forbes billionaires list and equally spectacular decline came to symbolize the country's economic fortunes, went on trial on Tuesday in a historic insider trading case seen as a blow against an ingrained culture of impunity.
Undergraduates of a pioneering university in the southern city Shenzhen will soon have the opportunity to earn a master's degree in health informatics from a leading US medical institute through a five-year combined program.
More high-tech products and technologies developed in Shenzhen will be shipped to emerging markets along the ancient Maritime Silk Road, a senior local researcher said.
Forced to pick cotton, grow cannabis, prostitute themselves, fight wars or clean up after the wealthy - some 35.8 million people are currently trapped in modern-day slavery, a new report said on Monday.
Gamblers who goad bulls to fight each other just outside this Haitian coastal town stand for hours by a river bed scrutinizing a dozen muscular animals with horns sharpened by knives.
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