The UN's Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its defining goal: stopping temperatures rising more than 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.
Elfriede Rinkel's past as a Nazi concentration camp guard didn't keep her from collecting nearly $120,000 in US Social Security benefits.
A solar plane attempting to fly around the world without a drop of fuel plans to make an unscheduled stop in Nagoya, Japan, because of bad weather, according to the website and Twitter feed for the plane.
Islamic State group jihadists demolished a notorious government prison in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Saturday, as barrel bombs dropped by government helicopters killed more than 70 civilians in Aleppo.
Twelve people suffered minor injuries and businesses returned to normal on Sunday after a powerful earthquake near remote Japanese islands shook most of the country the previous night, but it was well beneath the earth's surface and did not trigger a tsunami.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif met for six-hour talks on Saturday aimed at resolving the remaining differences over the Iran nuclear deal.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani demanded tough action from Pakistan against Taliban militants in a letter seeking greater anti-terrorism cooperation, after facing strong public criticism over a controversial intelligence-sharing deal between the neighbors.
South Korea's health minister apologized on Sunday for failing to halt an outbreak of the MERS virus, vowing the "utmost efforts" to halt the disease's spread as the number infected rose to 15.
Russia has imposed an entry ban on 89 European politicians and military leaders, a move that has angered Europe and worsened its standoff with the West over Moscow's role in the Ukraine conflict.
A suicide bomb blast outside a mosque and rocket-propelled grenades that exploded into homes as people slept killed at least 30 people in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, residents and officials said.
Scientists working in a Spanish cave may have stumbled across the world's oldest murder mystery.
Removing Cuba from a US blacklist it should never have been on is a "simple act of justice", Cuba's official daily newspaper Granma said on Saturday.
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