A craving for fast food presents few obstacles to most people, but for Japan's dainty, doll-like geishas, it calls for a daring undercover operation - and a cunning disguise.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman's right middle finger is still bandaged from a recent confrontation in the West Bank, when a suspected extremist Jewish settler lurched at him with a knife, punching and kicking him.
Pakistani rescuers pulled 99 people out alive from the rubble of a collapsed factory and are searching for an unknown number of others believed still trapped in a disaster that has killed at least 18, officials said on Thursday.
An Asian collector paid nearly $43 million for an Amedeo Modigliani painting in New York during an otherwise lackluster evening sale at Sotheby's that began the autumn auction season.
Two Tokyo districts issued Japan's first certificates officially recognizing same-sex partnerships on Thursday, a major step forward for gay couples in a nation where being openly gay remains largely taboo.
Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that growing, possessing and smoking marijuana for recreation is legal under the right to freedom.
Animal rights advocates are seeking homes for scores of dogs that had been raised for the canine meat market in the Republic of Korea but were sent to the United States for adoption after their breeder switched to growing rice, the head of a regional Humane Society said on Wednesday.
Russia has sent air defense systems to Syria to protect its forces there, Syria's state news agency SANA said on Thursday, citing a Russian official.
Evidence now suggests that a bomb planted by the Islamic State militant group is the likely cause of last weekend's crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, US and European security sources said on Wednesday.
Shortly after World War II ended, three US airmen took off from Singapore aboard a military transport on a flight to northern present-day Malaysia. The plane never arrived.
As an army of laborers churn out limestone bricks, archaeologist Prashantha Mandawala reflects on the ambitious task of restoring Sri Lanka's centuries-old Jaffna fort, destroyed by ethnic war.
Three out of four Australian adults say they have no regrets about never having children, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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