India will push ahead this week with plans to build a port in southeast Iran, two sources said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi keen to develop trade ties with Central Asia and prepared to fend off US pressure not to rush into any deals with Iran.
The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane into the French Alps after "rehearsing" the descent on an earlier flight, French investigators said on Wednesday.
Four Afghan men were sentenced to death on Wednesday for the lynching of a woman falsely accused of blasphemy, a landmark judgment in a nation where female victims often have little legal recourse.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the assault on a Texas cartoon contest that featured images of the Prophet Muhammad. But counterterrorism experts said IS has a history of asserting involvement in attacks in which it had no operational role.
The Obama administration approved the first ferry service in decades between the United States and Cuba on Tuesday, potentially opening a new route for the hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of millions of dollars in goods that travel between Florida and Havana each year.
China's march toward global ascendancy has made great strides - and certainly when it comes to New York high society and its most glittering fashion extravaganza, the Met Ball.
Many faced social stigma and were kept in the dark about their true parental origins, with birth certificates that usually said "father unknown".
The cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan is the country's intractable cultivation of opium.
Lebanon is rediscovering a century-old tragedy that most had forgotten - a devastating famine, caused by blockades and a locust infestation, that killed a third of its population.
It was an unexpected moment on the campaign trail.
Gulf monarchs gathered on Tuesday for an extraordinary summit, in the presence of French President Francois Hollande, as international concern grows over the war in Yemen.
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