From the first case solved thanks to a fingerprint in 1905, to the ropes used to hang prisoners, a new show in London displays hundreds of exhibits previously kept under wraps by Scotland Yard.
NATO said it was prepared to send troops to Turkey to defend its ally after violations of Turkish airspace by Russian jets bombing Syria.
Several Iraqi Kurdish troops tested positive for mustard gas after battles this summer with the Islamic State group in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the paramilitary group said on Wednesday.
Indonesia agreed on Thursday to accept international help to combat forest and agricultural fires cloaking Southeast Asia in haze, after weeks of failed attempts to douse the blazes that have infuriated its neighbors.
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence given to the killer of a politician who sought reform of the country's blasphemy law. The verdict was hailed by moderates as a blow against religious extremism.
Three brothers were among at least 13 people killed in a rocket attack that hit their wedding party in a village in southwestern Yemen on Thursday that residents said was most likely to have been carried out by Saudi-led coalition jets.
US President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday for a deadly US airstrike on an Afghan hospital, as the medical charity demanded an international investigation.
The US head of Volkswagen prepared to apologize to Congress on Thursday over the "deeply troubling" pollution scandal as it emerged he knew of a potential problem with vehicle emissions as early as spring 2014.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she does not support the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, reached on Monday after marathon talks between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
A Japanese climber who lost nine fingers to frostbite on Mount Qomolangma, known as Mount Everest in the West, three year ago, will make his final push for the summit late on Wednesday, organizers said.
Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the US, and Turkish-American Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA.
Suicide bombers with the Islamic State group killed 22 people on Tuesday in attacks on Yemen's government and its Gulf Arab coalition ally in the port city of Aden and on a Houthi-run mosque in the capital, Sanaa, the jihadist group and state media said.
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