Abdullah Musleh lay screaming in pain in a Sanaa hospital on Wednesday as a doctor cleaned his shrapnal-torn face. At 8, he's the victim of a worsening war that threatens millions of Yemenis with hunger, homelessness and death.
Japan has executed a man who robbed and killed a woman after plotting the crime with accomplices he met online.
Nepal's prime minister pledged on Thursday to ensure that all aid would reach earthquake victims, seeking to allay fears about corruption and red tape as he appealed for funds at a meeting of international donors in Kathmandu.
Seven long-suffering Asiatic moon bears have been rescued from bile farms in northern Vietnam as efforts to end the illegal trade are intensified.
US President Barack Obama moved to reduce tensions on Wednesday after revelations of US spying on three French presidents angered France.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev broke his silence on the death and devastation he caused two years ago with words that were not a political tirade or a justification.
Greece's international creditors gave Athens an ultimatum to come up with a credible reform plan on Thursday, warning they would otherwise put their own proposals to eurozone finance ministers for approval, a eurozone official said.
Australia's domestic spy agency played down concerns that maps shown in a media briefing revealing the source of homegrown fighters traveling to the Middle East were classified, responding to fears that their publication was a security breach.
Pakistan's financial capital of Karachi is wilting in a four-day heat wave that has killed more than 780 people, a health charity said on Wednesday, as the government declared a holiday in the city to encourage people to stay home and cool off.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights met with three aging former "comfort women" on a visit to Seoul on Wednesday and promised to continue advocating on behalf of South Korean victims of Japan's wartime system of sex slavery.
South Korea's appeals court on Wednesday ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate some laborers forced to work for the Japanese company during World War II.
Two major hospitals in South Korea's capital suspended services to patients on Wednesday in a bid to stop the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome after four new cases of the deadly virus were reported.
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