The Iranian government released a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship on Thursday, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations is asking the international community to quickly intervene with ground forces to save the country from Houthi rebels who have been targeted by Saudi-led airstrikes for weeks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu completed the formation of a new coalition late on Wednesday, putting him at the helm of a hard-line government that appears to be set on a collision course with the US and other key allies.
A fraudulent composer once dubbed "Japan's Beethoven", but who was neither deaf nor especially musical, is set to star in a documentary film about his charade, a report said on Thursday.
Rome's main Fiumicino airport reopened on Thursday after a fire that badly damaged the main international terminal building forced a closure for about 12 hours.
Voters were choosing a new Parliament for the United Kingdom on Thursday in an election that is expected to produce an ambiguous result, a period of frantic political horse-trading and a bout of national soul-searching.
The results of the British general election will not change current China-UK relations significantly, analysts and business leaders predicted.
The UK electorate heads to the polls on Thursday for the most unpredictable election in living memory, with fears of weeks of brinkmanship as the two major parties struggle to cobble together workable coalitions.
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for killing a homeless man with his SUV in a 2002 hit-and-run after a night out drinking at an upmarket bar.
Staff members at an Australian hospital's emergency department received a rather unusual late night visitor - a koala.
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