Burkina Faso's interim president declared on Wednesday he is once again in charge of the country a week after a military general and his supporters overthrew him and his transitional government.
Gunmen holding three foreigners and one Filipina hostage have slipped past a naval cordon and escaped to remote mountains in the southern Philippines without making ransom demands, police said on Wednesday.
An Indian who became an overnight star when an image of a policeman kicking his typewriter went viral has said he is fed up with all the attention - and just wants to go back to typing letters.
The governor of Okinawa has taken his effort to prevent the construction of a new US military site in Japan to a key United Nations human rights body, arguing that democracy and self-determination are threatened because his constituents oppose it.
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned on Wednesday, taking responsibility for the German carmaker's rigging of US emissions tests in the biggest scandal in its 78-year history.
European Union leaders held an emergency migration summit on Wednesday amid a growing East-West split after ministers forced through a controversial deal to relocate 120,000 refugees.
The music publishing company that has been collecting royalties on the song Happy Birthday To You for years does not hold a valid copyright on the lyrics to the tune that is one of the mostly widely sung in the world, a US federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Greece's new leftist-led coalition government has formally assumed its duties, pledging to enforce creditor-demanded spending cuts and reforms while softening the pain on an austerity-weary population.
The Information Office of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, on Tuesday issued a white paper on Gender Equality and Women's Development in China. Following is the full text:
Alexis Tsipras' left-wing Syriza party battered opponents in a snap general election, as Greeks gave the 41-year-old leader a second chance to deal with the country's staggering debt and carry out major reforms aimed at modernizing its government and economy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow on Monday to seek reassurance from Russian President Vladimir Putin about Moscow's military deployment in Syria and to lay out Israel's concerns about the risk of weapons reaching militants on its borders.
Nepal formally adopted a much-anticipated and long-delayed constitution on Sunday that took more than seven years to complete following a decade of political infighting.
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