Thousands of protesters condemning police violence marched through St. Louis on Saturday, during a weekend of demonstrations organized after the fatal shooting in August of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer in a suburb.
It took 68 days for Satyen Das to laboriously pedal his rickety, self-remodeled bicycle rickshaw from the seaside Indian city of Kolkata to the roof of the world - a 5,369-meter Himalayan pass. His goal: to promote the vehicle as an environmentally sound travel option.
Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, fresh from her marriage to Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney last month, is heading to Athens to advise the Greek government in its battle to repatriate ancient statues, the Elgin Marbles, from Britain.
"Sexting", or sending sexually explicit images by phone, remains prevalent among US teenagers despite the well-known risks and consequences, according to a new study.
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren will be given either a lie-in or rigorous sports classes as part of a pilot study announced on Thursday to see how advances in neuroscience can affect learning.
Lung cancer can lie dormant for more than 20 years before turning deadly, helping explain why a disease that kills more than 1.5 million a year worldwide is so persistent and difficult to treat, scientists said on Thursday.
As part of a plan to restart its nuclear industry, Japan on Thursday began a controversial consultation process with local residents near idled reactors that was criticized for failing to give everyone in the region a say.
Lawmakers in France, the world's most nuclear-dependent country, on Friday voted to cut reliance on the energy source from more than 75 percent to 50 percent within a decade.
A Chinese fisherman was fatally wounded by the coast guard of the Republic of Korea on Friday morning in what was characterized as a crackdown on illegal fishing.
Fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces paused on Friday after days of heavy shelling and gunbattles across the Line of Control in Kashmir. The skirmishes have been the worst between the neighbors in more than a decade.
The Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Friday traded machine-gun fire in an area near the military demarcation line.
Police clashed with protesters in St. Louis on Thursday for a second night after an officer killed a black teenager, ahead of a weekend of planned rallies in the area over the August killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
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