Malaysia and Indonesia said on Wednesday they would no longer turn away migrant vessels, responding to world pressure by offering to take in a wave of boat people provided that they could be resettled or repatriated within a year.
A United Nations conference to re-launch political talks in Yemen will open in Geneva on May 28, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday.
An Australian inquiry into child sex abuse heard on Wednesday that the nation's former top Catholic cleric, now Pope Francis' finance chief, tried to bribe a pedophile priest's victim to keep him quiet.
Hunkered down in his Pakistani compound, Osama bin Laden pleaded with his followers to stay focused on attacking the United States instead of being dragged into Muslim infighting.
Fighting erupted between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing four Ukrainian servicemen, the regional administration chief said. Gennady Moskal, governor of Luhansk region on the border with Russia, said separatists opened fire on government positions with mortar and artillery.
Indian scientists have completed final trials of a genetically modified variety of mustard and will submit a report to the government in a month, hoping to overcome stiff opposition and make it the country's first commercial transgenic food crop.
The Australian biological father of a Thai-born baby with Down syndrome who sparked a global debate over surrogacy was accused on Tuesday of trying to access money donated to help the boy.
The combination of global warming and shifting population means that by midcentury, there will be a huge increase in the number of US residents sweating through extremely hot days, a new study says.
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was banned on Tuesday from traveling overseas at the start of her trial on negligence charges, the latest in a number of cases her supporters say are part of an attempt to tighten the junta's grip on power.
The construction of new homes in Nepal has been banned by the government until the end of the financial year, which falls on July 15.
Australia's prime minister talked down the possibility on Tuesday that homesick Australian fighters could return from the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, warning that they could pose a threat at home.
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