Dean Potter knew the risks every time he flew off a cliff in a wingsuit.
Australians were tricked out of A$82 million ($65.6 million) last year, with online dating scams accounting for the biggest losses, the country's competition regulator revealed on Monday.
When Donal Traynor met Joseph Bowlby in Dublin in 1994, a year after Ireland decriminalized homosexuality, neither man ever imagined Ireland would one day hold a referendum on legalizing same-sex marriage, as it will this week.
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis displaced by anti-Taliban military operations in tribal areas wish to return home - but they have to agree to fight the extremists.
A spokesman for the governor of Iraq's Anbar province said on Monday that about 500 people - both civilians and Iraqi soldiers - are estimated to have been killed over the past few days as the city of Ramadi fell to the Islamic State group.
A shootout among rival motorcycle gangs at a restaurant in Waco, Texas, left nine bikers dead and 18 injured, and sent patrons and bystanders fleeing for safety, a police spokesman said on Sunday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Republic of Korea counterpart Yun Byung-se confirmed on Monday a firm US-ROK alliance against any threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The Indonesian navy prevented a suspected migrant boat from entering the country's waters over the weekend after the arrival of hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshis and has stepped up patrols in the area, the military said on Monday.
As Amtrak restores the busiest US passenger rail corridor following a deadly derailment in Philadelphia, officials are vowing to have safer trains and tracks.
Southeast Asia's timid diplomacy and a see-no-evil approach to human trafficking are to blame for its boat people influx, and overcoming the crisis will pose a severe test for a region loathe to address divisive issues, according to diplomats and analysts.
US commandos killed a senior Islamic State group leader in a nighttime raid into Syria, American officials said on Saturday, as IS jihadists seized the northern part of Syria's ancient desert city of Palmyra.
Giles Peppiatt, from Bonhams in London, had good reason to make the trip to Nigeria's financial capital, Lagos, for the auction house's next sale of African art - a glut of potential buyers.
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