When Indira Gandhi was gunned down by her bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984, the instant elevation of her son Rajiv to the post of prime minister appeared to confirm her family's status as India's natural-born rulers.
State police plan to monitor the movements and interactions of a nurse who vowed to defy the state's quarantine for healthcare workers who treat Ebola patients, but troopers cannot take her into custody without a judge's permission.
Members of the West African community in New York complained on Wednesday that their children were being bullied at school and that businesses were losing money because of hysteria over Ebola.
A US government health official attended an Ebola meeting in Havana, Cuba, on Wednesday, signaling the two nations' desire to cooperate in a fight against the deadly epidemic.
European Union-brokered talks to resolve a bitter natural gas supply dispute between Russia and Ukraine stalled on Thursday as Moscow demanded that Brussels and Kiev first agree on how Ukraine will pay its huge bill.
Russia is eyeing a project worth about $25 billion to overhaul the railway network of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in return for access to mineral resources, Moscow's government daily reported on Thursday.
Trains, buses and taxis for women only are on the rise in cities globally, with a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey finding women feel safer on single-sex transport, but gender experts dismissing this as a Band-Aid solution that could backfire for women.
As the NBA season gets underway in the United States this week, a group of Saudi women and girls will be pursuing their own hoop dreams.
It has long been said that pop stars live fast and die young, but a new Australian study has added scholarly credibility to the adage, finding that US musicians die up to 25 years earlier than the general population.
As a Japanese schoolgirl in the 1970s, Kazumi Kaminaga had never seen anything as cute as Hello Kitty when she first laid eyes on the moon-faced, mouthless character in a shop.
The Pakistani interior minister called upon a visiting US regional envoy to stop US drone strikes in the country's tribal region, local media reported on Wednesday.
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