US President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision on Tuesday for fixing the US criminal justice system by focusing on communities, courtrooms and cellblocks. He announced a federal review of the use of solitary confinement and urged Congress to pass a sentencing reform bill by year's end.
Greece prepared on Wednesday for a parliamentary vote on draconian reforms demanded by eurozone creditors in exchange for a huge new bailout, just hours after a bombshell report from the International Monetary Fund criticized the deal.
Jurors were due to begin deliberating on Wednesday whether accused "Batman" theater gunman James Holmes was sane when he coldbloodedly opened fire on a packed Colorado cinema three years ago.
An "extreme terror tour" of the Australian forest where a notorious killer buried seven backpackers in the 1990s was attacked on Tuesday as "horrendous" and insensitive to the families of the victims.
Japan's Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki urged the Japanese government on Monday to maintain the country's 70-year-old principle of pacifism and to drop a controversial plan to build a replacement for a US air base on Okinawa.
An unmanned spacecraft, New Horizons, flying past Pluto after a decadelong journey, has proved that the planet is larger than all other known objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, the US space agency NASA said.
The rapper 50 Cent, known for the album Get Rich or Die Tryin', has filed for bankruptcy.
Data appears to have proved the existence of particles made of five quarks, solving a 50-year-old puzzle about the building blocks of matter, researchers said on Tuesday.
The conflict in Iraq has taken a terrible toll on civilians, with nearly 15,000 killed and 30,000 wounded by the Islamic State group, Iraqi security forces and others during a 16-month period ending on April 30, according to a report released by the United Nations on Monday.
At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday in a stampede during a Hindu religious bathing festival on a river bank in southern India.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has challenged the entire US Congress to come and inspect a biotechnical institute in Pyongyang, which US experts have suggested is a facility for mass-producing anthrax for the military.
A Thai military court sentenced 10 people on Tuesday to up to five years in prison over audio and video recordings deemed insulting to the monarchy - the latest convictions in a series of cases brought since a coup more than a year ago.
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