Somewhere between the rise of single-cell organisms from the primordial soup and the advent of dating apps, reproduction made the leap from cloning to sex.
Two passenger trains jumped off slippery tracks on a bridge near a rain-swollen river in central India, killing at least 24 people, officials said on Wednesday.
The widow of the Republic of Korea's late president Kim Dae-jung arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday afternoon for her four-day visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea amid remaining cross-border tensions.
An Australian court on Wednesday revoked approval for an Indian-backed project to build what could be one of the world's biggest coal mines, which environmentalists say threatens the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked the US government to look into allegations that it spied on the Japanese government and companies, local media reported.
US President Barack Obama is casting a looming congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal as the United States' most consequential foreign policy debate since the authorization of the Iraq War, a now unpopular decision that still reverberates through US politics.
Egypt is unveiling a major extension of the Suez Canal on Thursday, a megaproject that has emerged as a cornerstone of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's efforts to restore national pride and revive the economy after years of unrest.
A poster campaign by the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats at a subway station in central Stockholm has stirred outrage in the Nordic country.
If a wing fragment found in the western Indian Ocean turns out to be part of missing Flight MH370, experts say, there are probably other pieces of the aircraft that floated off rather than sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
A fishing boat carrying an estimated 600 migrants capsized on Wednesday in the Mediterranean north of Libya, and at least 150 people were spotted in the sea, Irish military officials said.
The 193 member states of the United Nations have reached agreement on a new development agenda for the next 15 years that calls for eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving gender equality, improving living standards and taking urgent action to combat climate change.
The decision to include a pledge to eradicate slavery at the heart of a UN global development agenda is a major victory, but there is a long way to go, campaigners against trafficking and slavery said on Monday.
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