An 8-year-old boy who lost his hands and feet to a serious infection has become the youngest US patient to receive a double hand transplant, surgeons said.
Toyota's new robot glides around like R2-D2 and is devoted to a single task: picking things up.
The Afghan Taliban, who have been fighting to topple the Kabul government for almost 14 years, said on Thursday that they were "not aware" of a new round of peace talks due the following day in Pakistan in a statement indicating the group may be pulling out of the negotiations.
India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country's deadliest bombings, which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, after the Supreme Court threw out his final plea for a stay of execution.
A Cairo court session that had been expected to deliver a verdict on Thursday in the retrial of Al-Jazeera television journalists has been adjourned, Al-Jazeera said on its Twitter feed.
The Israeli parliament approved on Thursday a law allowing prisoners on hunger strikes facing death to be force-fed, a spokesman said, sparking criticism from rights groups and medical experts.
Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 24 people on Thursday and left more than 20 missing as homes were swept away in three districts of quake-hit Nepal.
Moscow calls plan 'politicized' but says nation is committed to 'thorough' probe
British tabloids combined two of their favorite themes in covering the Calais migrants controversy on Thursday - French-bashing and railing against the government response to illegal immigration.
Online retail colossus Amazon wants to carve out a special zone of the sky to shuttle commercial drones that would deliver goods to its customers.
Two men were due to appear in a Zimbabwean court on poaching charges on Wednesday after a wealthy US dentist killed a beloved lion at a national park, sparking waves of criticism around the world.
One of Japan's best-known contemporary artists is locked in a fight with a public museum over claims it has threatened to withdraw works critical of the conservative government.
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