US entertainment giant Disney was forced to apologize after one of its Japanese-language tweets was criticized for being insensitive as the country commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Parents at the center of a growing child abuse scandal in Pakistan accused police on Monday of failing to do enough to break up a pedophile ring in Punjab province, the prime minister's political heartland.
Wielding a machete, Rod Beattie slashes at tangled undergrowth and soaring bamboo to expose vistas from one of World War II's iconic sagas. Out of the jungle appear remnants of a railway that cost the lives of more than 100,000 Allied prisoners and Asians enslaved by Japan's Imperial Army.
A stampede at a temple during a Hindu religious festival left at least 11 pilgrims dead and dozens injured early on Monday in eastern India, police said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed on Sunday scrapping top government posts and curbing privileges in an ambitious reform drive sparked by swelling popular anger over corruption and poor governance.
Two assailants opened fire at the US consulate building in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday, fleeing after a gunfight with police, Turkish media reports said.
Two people were wounded by gunfire at a rally in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday marking the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown near where the unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white officer.
Israel has arrested several suspects believed to be linked to the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian home and placed two more alleged Jewish extremists in detention without trial.
An ethnic Chinese politician with her sights on a seat in Scotland's Parliament has resigned from the Scottish Nationalist Party, saying she had faced racism and bullying by her colleagues.
A surge in migrants from Africa threatens the European Union's living standards and social infrastructure, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday, adding that the bloc was unable to take in millions of people seeking a new life.
A man who engaged police in a standoff at a Texas home has been charged with capital murder after the bullet-riddled bodies of family members - six children and two adults - were found inside, officials said on Sunday.
The kitchen is a rustic grill under a tarp in a fetid-smelling camp teeming with migrants. But for Zubair Nazari, it means survival.
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