The Pentagon disclosed on Wednesday that it inadvertently shipped possibly live anthrax to at least 51 laboratories across the US and in three other countries over the past decade, but it has yet to determine how it happened, who is to blame, why it was not discovered earlier and how much worse the embarrassment will get.
An explosion at a gasoline refueling station in Ghana's capital, Accra, killed about 90 people, many of whom had sought shelter there from torrential rain, on Wednesday night, the fire brigade said.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on Wednesday to condemn violence against women after a series of murders.
Europe's human rights court will decide on Friday if a man in a vegetative state can be taken off life support in a case that ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.
Nigeria-based Boko Haram jihadists are behind horrendous violence in neighboring Cameroon, where they have kidnapped more than 1,000 children and used some youngsters as human shields, a top United Nations official has said.
Dutch scientists have developed a revolutionary system that could one day help isolated villages around the world steadily generate electricity from mundane waterlogged plants such as rice growing in paddy fields.
A local councilor whose zealous anti-waste campaign led to a French law forcing supermarkets to give leftover food to charity is now preparing a petition to take the legislation Europe-wide.
Japan is looking at installing toilets in elevators and providing an emergency supply of drinking water for people trapped by the nation's frequent powerful earthquakes, an official said on Wednesday.
Bolivia's mix of Roman Catholic and indigenous traditions are on display across La Paz as thousands of costumed dancers perform during the annual Feast of the Great Power, a raucous street party that celebrates a rendering of Jesus Christ with native features and outstretched arms.
Claudia is a shy, stout adolescent, but today she looks like a princess in a fluorescent fairy tale as she dances in her electric-blue gown and jewel-encrusted sneakers for the 250 guests at her 15th birthday party in Mexico City.
US President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation that reforms a government surveillance program that swept up millions of US residents' telephone records.
What happens with the phone records collection?
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