Australia's affliction with alcohol sees its adults spending 91.5 million hours of every month hung over, according to data released on Monday.
Mohammed Omar, the commander known on the battlefield as Pakhsaparan, or "the wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk.
South Korea announced plans to ban those suspected of being infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome from leaving the country amid mounting criticism over the government's botched initial response to the often-fatal disease.
Bangladeshi police charged 41 people, including the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex, with murder on Monday over the building's collapse in 2013 that killed 1,137 people.
Every time he looks in a mirror, Laith Ahmed is worried. As of Monday, the young Iraqi's hopelessly hairless chin could land him in an Islamic State group jail.
The number of Islamic State fighters is swelling as more recruits leave their home countries to join the militants, posing a tougher challenge for the United States in its fight against the extremist group.
The legal authority for US spy agencies' collection of US citizens' phone records and other data expired on Sunday after the US Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers.
The United Nations said on Monday that more than 6,400 people had been killed in Ukraine, and despite a slowdown in fighting, millions more are suffering from abuses and hardship.
The UN's Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its defining goal: stopping temperatures rising more than 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.
Elfriede Rinkel's past as a Nazi concentration camp guard didn't keep her from collecting nearly $120,000 in US Social Security benefits.
A solar plane attempting to fly around the world without a drop of fuel plans to make an unscheduled stop in Nagoya, Japan, because of bad weather, according to the website and Twitter feed for the plane.
Islamic State group jihadists demolished a notorious government prison in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Saturday, as barrel bombs dropped by government helicopters killed more than 70 civilians in Aleppo.
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