Rome's center-left mayor on Saturday recognized the validity of 16 gay marriages performed outside Italy, the first such ceremony in the capital, sparking an angry reaction from the interior minister and the country's Roman Catholic Church.
In a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's new trade and industry minister was expected to resign over allegations that groups that had backed her misused political funds, according to Japanese media.
No safety personnel were deployed at an outdoor pop concert where a ventilation grate collapsed, killing 16 people and injuring nine others, South Korean police said on Sunday.
The son of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto made his formal political debut in a massive rally on Saturday, vowing to resist extremism and stop the Islamic State group from gaining a foothold in the country.
Nepalese officials closed a section of a popular Himalayan trekking route on Sunday after rescuers, overwhelmed by last week's snowstorms that killed 38 hikers, had to bring to safety new climbers who set out on the same mountain trails where the blizzards struck.
The World Health Organization said on Saturday that it will not explain details contained in an internal document obtained by the media in which the UN health agency says it fumbled early attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Nigeria was expected to be declared Ebola-free on Monday, just three months after fears that the virus could spread like wildfire through Africa's most populous nation.
The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border city of Kobane overnight when Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish forces with mortars and car bombs, sources in the city said on Sunday.
More than 24 hours after Nigerian officials claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants to free more than 200 schoolgirls, relatives of the teenagers were still anxiously waiting for news about their return.
The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea troops briefly exchanged fire on Sunday inside the demilitarized zone that traverses the divided peninsula, the ROK's Defense Ministry said.
Multistory graveyards ease pressure on land in overcrowded urban areas
It was just a feather, but in the tropical paradise of the Seychelles, the discovery of parakeet plumage has put environmentalists in a flutter, with a foreign invading bird threatening the national parrot.
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