Landing with a bounce after traveling 6.4 billion km, a European spacecraft made history on Wednesday by successfully reaching the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet - a cosmic first designed to answer big questions about the universe.
Portraits by Andy Warhol of entertainment superstars Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando were among the highlights at a record-breaking auction of postwar and contemporary art.
Vast areas of land and sea have become environmental sanctuaries in recent years, but the world is not funding them adequately, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
Israeli authorities gave preliminary approval on Wednesday for 200 homes to be built in a Jewish area of East Jerusalem, a move that threatens to push Israelis and Palestinians deeper into conflict after weeks of unrest over the city's holiest sites.
Israel said on Wednesday that it will not cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into this year's Gaza conflict because its findings are "pre-determined".
Eggs, tinned food, reptiles and surfboards will be banned in parts of Brisbane this week as Australia's largest peacetime deployment of police and soldiers braces for everything from unruly protests to mass hostage-taking at the Group of 20 summit.
A doctor who carried out sterilization procedures on 13 women who later died in central India has been arrested.
Eight of the 15 surviving crew members from a South Korean ferry that capsized in April are appealing their convictions on charges of negligence in the country's worst maritime disaster in more than four decades.
Iran will manufacture four versions of the US RQ-170 drone, which was downed inside the country's airspace in December 2011, a top military commander said on Wednesday.
Russia's top defense official said on Wednesday that Russia will conduct long-range bomber training patrols over the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans to guarantee its military presence there in response to the current geopolitical situation.
A growing number of Republicans in the US Congress want to use government spending bills as leverage to prevent US President Barack Obama from taking unilateral action to ease the country's immigration policies.
A female suicide bomber injured four people at a teachers' college in northwest Nigeria on Wednesday, while the United States hit back at allegations it has not done enough to tackle Boko Haram militants.
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