At least four police officers were killed by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported.
Nestled between high-rise buildings on a busy street in Chile's modern capital is a straw hut that's a sign of growing respect for the Andean country's long-disdained indigenous past.
A new Cuban-made vaccine against chronic hepatitis B has entered clinical trials in Cuba plus eight countries and regions in Oceania and Asia with the help of French company Abivax.
Eating in moderation, drinking a glass of good wine every day and avoiding chasing women are the secrets of a long life, say Belgians Pieter and Paulus Langerock, the world's oldest living twin brothers.
Russell Begaye stared into a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, watching yellow water contaminated with heavy metals gush out and race down a slope toward a creek that feeds rivers critical to survival on the largest Native American reservation in the United States and in other parts of the Southwest.
A 48-hour truce has been reached between the Syrian army and armed militants in two hot spots in northwest Syria and near the Lebanese border, a monitor group and the Lebanese Al-Manar TV reported early on Wednesday.
Myanmar was evacuating parts of a city on Wednesday after mudslides wiped away hundreds of houses and torrential rain threatened further damage in the worst floods to hit the country in decades.
The Taliban have condemned a "horrific" video that appears to show fighters from the Islamic State group blowing up bound and blindfolded Afghan prisoners with explosives.
A Malaysian opposition party on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Najib Razak and the indebted state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, saying they had violated electoral rules and a new election should be held.
Thailand's junta leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha has said he may appoint his brother as the next army chief, one of the most powerful jobs in the coup-prone kingdom.
Investigators studying the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are "really getting closer" to finding out who was behind the attack, said Fred Westerbeke, the Dutch prosecutor leading a criminal investigation into the tragedy.
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