Flash floods have killed 12 people near Utah's border with Arizona when a "large wall of water and debris" triggered by heavy rain pounding nearby canyons swept them away in their cars, officials said on Tuesday.
Australia has launched its first airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, Defense Minister Kevin Andrews confirmed on Wednesday.
The White House said on Tuesday the United States would like to see Russia engage constructively with the international coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, rather than build up its own military presence there.
Japan has lodged a protest with Russia after scrambling four jet fighters to intercept a foreign aircraft - believed to be Russian - which briefly violated its airspace, officials said Wednesday.
Amid the bustle of a busy harvest in France's famed Beaujolais wine-making region, a quiet effort is underway to counter one of the industry's biggest potential threats: climate change.
From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating ice.
In theory, Japan and its allies could begin making plans for any possible overseas conflict after the expected enactment of defense legislation this week, but it is considered unlikely that Japan would send troops to back US-led operations against the Islamic State group.
Turkish police raided a magazine on Monday over a mock selfie of a smiling President Tayyip Erdogan with the coffin of a soldier - an allusion to comments that families of soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels could be happy about their martyrdom.
A worsening haze across northern Indonesia, neighboring Singapore and parts of Malaysia on Tuesday forced some schools to close and airlines to cancel flights, while Indonesia ordered a crackdown against lighting fires to clear forested land.
Multimillionaire former banker Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in on Tuesday as Australia's fourth prime minister in just over two years, promising to create a dynamic new economy and end the divisive approach of his predecessor.
Hundreds of migrants spent the night in the open on Serbia's northern border with Hungary.
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