The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has decided to grant amnesty to convicts to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's liberation and the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
For years, Christian pilgrims have waded into the Jordan River from both its eastern and western banks to connect with a core event of their faith - the baptism of Jesus.
Japanese people like cute things and Pepper, the new companion robot from Tokyo-based technology company Softbank Corp, takes cuteness to a new level.
The Rappahannock Regional Jail in Virginia needs a face-lift. The "decor was quite dated and it was in desperate need of a refreshing paint job", said Shane S following his recent incarceration.
They arrive full of hope and ambition to idyllic Greek islands, having fled war and other perils. However, once in Athens the migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq discover a country in crisis with little to offer them.
Oklahoma's Olivia Jordan was crowned Miss USA on Sunday, capping weeks of controversy in the run-up to the annual beauty pageant after its co-owner Donald Trump made incendiary remarks about Mexican immigrants while announcing his run for president.
A massive cleanup effort is getting underway in Alaska, with tons of marine debris, some likely sent to sea by the 2011 tsunami in Japan, set to be airlifted from rocky beaches and taken by barge for recycling and disposal in the Pacific Northwest.
Iran and six world powers were close to clinching a historic pact on Monday that would bring Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, but an Iranian negotiator said he could not guarantee a deal was imminent.
Malaysian police said on Monday they are investigating the leak of confidential documents that purport to show millions of dollars were funneled to Prime Minister Najib Razak's account, an explosive disclosure that has shaken the ruling coalition in power since 1957.
A suicide car bombing near a military base in eastern Afghanistan that once hosted CIA employees killed at least 26 people on Sunday, local officials said, the latest insurgent attack after foreign forces ended their combat mission there.
The blood on the sand has washed away, but the damage inflicted on Tunisia by a few terrifying minutes of gunfire at a beach resort will be deep and lasting.
Police who seized Asia's largest shipment of liquid cocaine in history at a Bangladeshi port late last month said it was headed for India, the latest sign that drug cartels are increasingly plying their trade in South Asia.
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