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.
An Afghan judge sentenced 11 policemen to a year in prison on Tuesday for their role in the mob killing of a woman in Kabul.
A speeding bus struck a van, killing at least 18 garment workers and injuring nearly two dozen in eastern Cambodia, prompting a plea from Prime Minister Hun Sen for drivers to slow down to make the country's roads safer.
Rescuers searched for bodies on Tuesday and sought to aid the hundreds of survivors of a deadly flood that was triggered by a mudslide after heavy rains swept through a Colombian town.
Tens of thousands of supporters of embattled Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski took to the streets of the capital in a show of strength on Monday, a day after a huge opposition protest called on him to resign.
An adviser to Iran's supreme leader has dismissed accusations that he masterminded Argentina's worst terrorist attack, saying in an interview that he and the Islamic Republic are innocent.
Arturo Azinian plucked a pair of Chanel pumps from a box full of shoes, unfazed by the leather peeling off the interlocking C's on the toes or the tarnished metallic heels.
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