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Gay couple makes bid to marry after defiant clerk ordered to jail

[2015-09-05 08:40]

April Miller and Karen Roberts planned to return to the Rowan County Courthouse on Friday for the fifth time since June to ask for a marriage license.

Hundreds remain stranded on train

[2015-09-05 08:40]

Hundreds of migrants, including Syrian refugees, were stranded on a train in Bicske, Hungary, for a second day on Friday, demanding passage to Germany in a standoff with riot police.

France confirms wing part was from jetliner

[2015-09-05 08:40]

French investigators have formally identified a washed-up piece of airplane debris found in July on a remote island in the Indian Ocean as part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Boeing 777 that disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard.

ROK, DPRK resume exchange of angry accusations after accord

[2015-09-05 08:40]

The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are waging a war of words less than two weeks after the two sides reached an agreement to defuse tensions over land mine blasts and the broadcasting of propaganda messages.

IN BRIEF (Page 9)

[2015-09-05 08:40]

Otto Perez resigned as president and was imprisoned on Thursday while a judge weighs charging him in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged the country into a political crisis days before a presidential election.

UN paints dire portrait of Gaza

[2015-09-03 08:07]

A new United Nations report says Gaza could be "uninhabitable" in less than five years if current economic trends continue.

Ex-PM Mahathir faces police questioning

[2015-09-03 08:07]

Malaysian police want to question former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad about anti-government comments, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a bid to stifle the veteran leader's campaign to bring down the current prime minister.

2020 Tokyo Olympics' logo designer claims harassment

[2015-09-03 08:07]

The designer of a logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has said he asked organizers to yank the scandal-hit emblem due to unbearable harassment he faced in the wake of plagiarism allegations.

Protesters ousted from ministry

[2015-09-03 08:07]

Lebanese police ejected protesters who occupied part of the environment ministry on Tuesday to press the minister to resign, raising tensions over their campaign against uncollected garbage and a stagnant political class.

Teen describes ordeal in IS slave market

[2015-09-03 08:07]

Kidnapped, beaten, sold and raped: the Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves, a teenager who escaped told AFP on Tuesday.

Thousands of migrants pour into Greek capital

[2015-09-03 08:07]

The Greek government was set to hold talks on Wednesday on the huge numbers of migrants landing on its shores, as about 4,300 more people, most of them Syrian refugees, arrived in Athens overnight.

President stripped of his immunity

[2015-09-03 08:07]

Guatemala's Congress voted on Tuesday to strip President Otto Perez of his immunity, clearing the way for him to be prosecuted for allegedly masterminding a multi-million-dollar corruption scheme.

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