Conflicts around the world sent the number of people forced to flee their homes to a record 59.5 million last year, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Aspiring politician Asha Salum is busy trying to convince people in her area of Dar es Salaam to support her candidacy for a council position at elections later this year, one of a growing number of women seeking political office in Tanzania.
Australian aboriginal people who lived around the now-arid area at Lake Mungo 24,000 years ago were likely to have been skilled inland seafarers, new research reveals.
A landmark bill to recognize the Aboriginal people as the first inhabitants of Western Australia will receive bipartisan support, the state's premier said on Thursday.
A marine sergeant was convicted on Wednesday of murdering an Iraqi civilian in 2006, the second time a military jury has returned a guilty verdict in what has become one of the most complicated and long-running criminal cases from the Iraq War.
A 21-year-old white gunman accused of killing nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested on Thursday, said US officials, who are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
Cuba and the United States have made slow progress in the six months since the two countries began negotiations to restore diplomatic relations, with no date set yet for the reopening of embassies.
The IMF dashed any hope on Thursday that Greece could avert default if it fails to repay a 1.6 billion euro ($1.8 billion) loan by the end of June, piling pressure on leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who showed no sign of yielding to creditors' demands.
Technology company Softbank's robot, Pepper, is going on sale in Japan on Saturday, equipped with a "heart" designed to not only recognize human emotions but react with simulations of anger, joy and irritation.
China said on Thursday that it is willing to provide aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which is suffering from a drought.
Anti-Semitic propaganda had a lifelong effect on German children schooled during the Nazi period, leaving them far more likely to harbor negative views of Jews than those born earlier and later, according to a study.
Federal wildlife protection programs are helping shark populations to rebound, but they aren't the sole reason for the uptick in encounters between sharks and humans.
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