About 1,000 people, reportedly a world record, participated in a group hug around the base of one of Australia's oldest steel lighthouses over the weekend.
A search plane has spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger plane that disappeared with 54 people on board, smoke still billowing from it in a rugged area in eastern Papua province, rescue officials said on Monday.
Suddenly, almost silently, a group of young men carrying a small plastic dinghy emerges from the darkness, dashes across a road and a dirty strip of sand and plunges into the crystal-clear waters of the Aegean Sea.
Turkey and the United States said on Sunday that Washington would withdraw its Patriot missile batteries from Turkey in October after bolstering Ankara's air defenses against threats from Syria's civil conflict.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that details sentences for terrorist crimes ranging from five years to the death penalty.
Sri Lankans went to the polls on Monday to elect a new parliament in what amounts to a referendum on ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa's comeback bid, with the reformist alliance that swept him from power seeking a stronger mandate.
Brazilians took to the streets of cities and towns across the country for anti-government protests being watched as a barometer of discontent with President Dilma Rousseff.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to deny citizenship to the babies of immigrants living in the country illegally as part of an immigration plan that emphasizes border security and deportation for millions.
New Polish President Andrzej Duda will visit Estonia next week to start a push for NATO to deploy more forces in the region, a senior aide said on Monday.
The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, said he is alive and still head of the Nigeria-based jihadist group, according to a new audio recording released on Sunday.
Israeli authorities say a Palestinian was shot dead after he stabbed a guard at a West Bank checkpoint.
Public funding and donations given to 300 institutions that have no pupils
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