A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.
New ranking says 33 countries expected to face extreme shortages globally in 25 years' time
The powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah threw its weight on Tuesday behind mass protests calling for the government's resignation, deepening a crisis that started over piles of uncollected garbage in the streets of the capital but has tapped into a much deeper malaise.
India deployed paramilitary forces and imposed a curfew in the western state of Gujarat on Wednesday after violence broke out at a protest led by a powerful clan demanding more government jobs and college admissions.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologized to Tokyo after WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
The military of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is slowly easing its battle-readiness posture, officials of the Republic of Korea and the United States said on Wednesday after Seoul and Pyongyang secured a deal allowing them to avoid an armed clash.
It's Malaysia's $700 million question: Who transferred massive amounts of cash into Prime Minister Najib Razak's personal bank accounts, and where is the money now?
Minutes before he slung an assault rifle across his chest and walked through a high-speed train, the Moroccan suspect in the foiled attack in France watched a jihadi video on his cellphone, the prosecutor said in formally opening a terrorism investigation.
Hundreds of Colombians waded across a border river with refrigerators, chickens and mattresses on their backs - victims of an escalating dispute with the Venezuelan government.
With the lofty goal of promoting medieval heritage, the first International Knights' Festival, known as "Just Out", opened on Tuesday in the Serbian town of Despotovac, 130 km southeast of Belgrade.
Two television journalists were shot and killed in Virginia on Wednesday morning while conducting a live interview, and authorities said police were pursuing a suspect who appeared to be a disgruntled current or former employee of the TV station.
Two men wearing Afghan security force uniforms opened fire on Wednesday inside a military base in southern Afghanistan, killing two NATO service members before being shot dead themselves, the international force said.
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