Police clashed with protesters in St. Louis on Thursday for a second night after an officer killed a black teenager, ahead of a weekend of planned rallies in the area over the August killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
The two women came from opposite ends of Liberian society - one a beauty queen and daughter of a prominent lawmaker, the other an ordinary homemaker from a remote northern town.
The UK Independence Party, which opposes the European Union, won by a landslide its first elected seat in Parliament on Friday and was a close second in another vote, setting itself up as a threat to the country's two main parties in a national election next year.
Islamic State fighters advanced deeper into the Syrian city of Kobane on the Turkish border on Friday, taking almost complete control of an area where the local Kurdish administration is based, a group monitoring the violence reported.
A New York state appeals court will decide in coming weeks whether chimpanzees are entitled to "legal personhood" in a case that could lead to expanded rights for animals such as gorillas, elephants and dolphins, according to the lawyer advocating for a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy.
A century-old time capsule, filled mostly with documents by long-departed Wall Street businessmen celebrating New York as a commercial hub, was unsealed on Wednesday.
At least two people were killed and 16 more injured in overnight shelling by Indian and Pakistani forces along the line of control between the two countries in Kashmir, Indian and Pakistani officials said on Thursday.
Troops trading heavy fire between Pakistan and India-controlled Kashmir have plunged civilians on both sides into grief with 18 villagers killed and dozens wounded this week, prompting many to question how two nations committed to a 2003 cease-fire could be targeting civilians while trading blame about who started shooting first.
One person was killed and 13 others wounded in a grenade explosion in front of an entertainment outlet in Kuala Lumpur early on Thursday, with four Chinese women among the victims.
As the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea prepares to mark its 69th anniversary on Friday, the world will be watching to see if DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un will make his first public appearance in more than a month.
An Australian judge said on Thursday that a couple rejected one of the twin infants born to an Indian surrogate mother because of the baby's gender. They took home the twin sibling.
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