Soon after dawn, Bashir Bilal sat outside on his usual plastic jerrycan surrounded by young girls and boys chanting Quranic verses.
More than a half-million US patients had medication costs in excess of $50,000 in 2014, an increase of 63 percent from the prior year, as doctors prescribed more expensive specialty drugs for diseases such as cancer and hepatitis C, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Eleven-year-old Joey Alexander's favorite things include The Avengers, SpongeBob SquarePants and the legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
Darkness is falling on another depressing night in one of America's most marginal neighborhoods.
A 25.59-carat "pigeon blood" ruby sold for a world record $30.33 million at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, while a rare pink diamond believed to have once belonged to Napoleon's niece fetched $15.9 million, Sotheby's said.
Thousands of people spent the night outdoors after a new earthquake killed dozens of people and spread more misery in Nepal, which is still reeling from a devastating quake that killed more than 8,000 people nearly three weeks ago.
Yemen fell quiet on Wednesday for the first time since a Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes against Iran-backed rebels on March 26, as a humanitarian truce appeared to be holding.
Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to send boats holding thousands of migrants back to sea, a senior Thai official said on Wednesday, despite a UN appeal for a rapid rescue operation to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
A South Korean reservist went on a shooting spree that left one comrade dead and three wounded on Wednesday before shooting himself dead, as Amnesty International issued a report urging Seoul to rethink mandatory military service.
At least 43 Shiite Muslims were killed and 13 wounded when gunmen opened fire on a bus in Karachi on Wednesday in the second deadliest attack on the minority sect this year, police said.
Cuba and the US will name ambassadors to each other's countries after the island is removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism later this month, Cuban President Raul Castro said on Tuesday.
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