It's a little-known fact about Napoleon Bonaparte: the former French emperor considered immigrating to the United States after his defeat at Waterloo.
South Korea's outbreak of the potentially deadly MERS virus forced the central bank to cut its key interest rate on Thursday to ward off greater economic damage, as retailers reported a slump in business.
Documents leaked via WikiLeaks showed that the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will undermine Australia's universal healthcare system, pushing up the cost of medicine, according to media reports on Thursday.
In his first televised appearance since his ruling party lost its parliamentary majority, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked all Turkish political parties to put aside their differences and rapidly form a new government.
A court in Japan's southernmost Okinawa Prefecture ruled on Thursday that the Japanese government must pay about 754 million yen ($6.1 million) in damages to residents who live around the controversial US Futenma air base because of aircraft noise.
Jakarta's traffic jams are a constant vexation for the city's 10 million residents. With the chaos not looking to abate anytime soon, entrepreneurial types have made it their business to help fellow commuters circumvent the world's worst gridlock.
Amid persistent setbacks in the fight against Islamic State. US President Barack Obama turned his military's focus to the Sunni-Shiite divide, ordering hundreds of troops to Iraq to better integrate Iraqi forces and lay the groundwork to retake Ramadi and other key cities.
Islamic State has "global ambitions", and representatives of governments and technology giants said in Australia on Thursday that more must be done to tackle the group's use of social media for recruitment.
When Jason Matthews retired after more than three decades as a CIA operative, writing fiction provided a form of therapy.
A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall buried six villages in Nepal's mountainous northeast, and at least 15 people sleeping in their homes are believed to have been killed, officials said on Thursday.
Cuba's growing international trendiness combined with the government's topsy-turvy labor regulations are making sculptors, painters and other artists some of the richest people on the island.
A son of migrant farm workers in California will be the next United States poet in chief.
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