The destruction of the nearly 2,000-year-old temple of Baal Shamin by Islamic State militants erased a symbol of the once rich religious life of Syria's ancient caravan city of Palmyra.
Bangladesh's High Court has imposed a six-month ban on the screening of a movie about a garment worker who was rescued from the rubble 17 days after a five-story factory complex collapsed more than two years ago, killing over 1,000 people.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed to extend a crackdown on smugglers and illegal migrants from neighboring Colombia whom he blames for rampant crime and widespread shortages.
Hundreds of security forces patrolled an area of western Nepal on Tuesday where ethnic protesters, demanding statehood, attacked police with spears and knives a day earlier, leaving at least six officers and three protesters dead and many others injured.
The hacking of the cheating website Ashley Madison has triggered extortion crimes and led to two unconfirmed reports of suicides, Canadian police said on Monday.
The EU has been struggling to cope with the unprecedented arrivals - from the thousands landing on the shores of Greece and Italy to the hundreds risking their lives to climb onto trucks to travel from France to Britain.
The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for killing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights organization said on Monday at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting spotlighting violence and discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.
When foreign mining companies and Western donors were pulling funds out of Madagascar following a coup in 2009, Austral Resources Chief Executive Scott Reid did the opposite and poured money in to the Indian Ocean island.
Police in more than 20 North American cities are testing the latest in less-lethal alternatives to bullets - "blunt impact projectiles" that cause suspects excruciating pain but stop short of killing them. Or at least that's the goal.
Typhoon Goni slammed into the Japanese mainland on Tuesday, leaving 13 people with minor injuries and disrupting rail and flight services, as the government issued an evacuation advisory for more than 100,000 residents.
Advocates for making the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico the 51st US state say its economic woes are strengthening their arguments.
Death threats are nothing new for Asif Quaraishi, but the gay Muslim hopes that a documentary about Muslim drag queens will encourage gay British Asians to come out of the closet rather than provoke a backlash against Britain's "hidden" community.
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