E.L. Doctorow, one of the most accomplished novelists in the United States in recent decades, best known for his historical fiction, died on Tuesday at the age of 84, US media reports said.
A Japanese zoo is trying to do the impossible: improve the image of cockroaches. It will put on an exhibition of one of the world's most hated insects.
A former crocodile poacher is stalking a problem predator believed to be the largest in the world, Australian Broadcasting Corp reported on Tuesday.
Scrabble lovers tend to choose similar words when describing Nigel Richards, the New Zealander who this week won the word game's Francophone world championship even though he cannot speak French.
The man responsible for overseeing the exhaustive search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 remains positive about the prospect of finding the jet, even though the operation marked its 500-day milestone on Tuesday.
The Myanmar government and armed ethnic minority groups resumed critical talks on Wednesday to reach a nationwide cease-fire agreement that would end six decades of fighting before an upcoming general election that threatens to upend hard-won progress toward a deal.
A US-led coalition airstrike this month killed the leader of an al-Qaida offshoot in Syria that US officials accuse of plotting attacks against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon said.
Women in Malaysia - long seen as a moderate Islamic nation - have been denied entry to government buildings on the grounds their skirts were too revealing, fanning fears of growing conservatism in a country with large non-Muslim minorities.
The final hours of two British backpackers killed on a Thai resort island last year were tracked by more than a dozen security cameras, a court was told during the resumption of the trial of two men from Myanmar accused of their murder.
The nuclear pact could eventually help many Iranian-Americans who have struggled with red tape, shuttered accounts and even criminal prosecution to conduct bank transactions, although relief seems unlikely anytime soon.
Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers rallied in Kiev on Tuesday to protest government policies following a deadly standoff between radical nationalists and police in the country's west.
Dashboard camera video released on Tuesday involving the traffic stop in Texas of a woman later found hanging dead in her jail cell showed how the incident quickly escalated into an altercation between her and a state trooper.
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