Patrick Modiano of France, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
The United States and Canada announced stepped-up airport screening measures on Wednesday to look for passengers carrying Ebola, as the deadly virus killed a man in Texas and the worldwide toll neared 3,900.
The US-led coalition pounded positions held by Islamic State militants in the Syrian border city of Kobane on Thursday in some of the most intensive strikes in the air campaign so far, a Kurdish official and an activist group said.
Yemeni officials say two suicide bombings - one in Sanaa, the other in the country's south - killed at least 67 people.
These are treasures that Israel doesn't allow anyone to check out of its national library.
US residents are living longer than ever before, according to a new government report filled mostly with good news. Life expectancy inched up again, and death rates fell.
Belgium is the latest European country to mandate raising the age of retirement.
An Australian woman has been found alive after spending 17 days lost in remote bushland in far north Queensland in an extraordinary tale of survival.
Many US coastal communities already struggle with flooding at high tides, a problem that will become "chronic" in the coming 15 years due to global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea offered UN delegations on Tuesday its own lengthy report on Pyongyang's human rights record and repeated its dismissal of a United Nations investigation report released earlier this year as "wild rumors" peddled by "hostile forces".
The Republic of Korea's Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said on Wednesday that Seoul would be able to talk with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea about economic sanctions and a resumption of tours to Mount Kumgang during the upcoming senior-level inter-Korean dialogue.
An Indian state has required the teaching of self-defense techniques for schoolgirls because of rampant harassment and violence against women, local media said on Wednesday.
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