A small but violent al-Qaida-linked Islamist group in the Philippines has demanded 1 billion pesos ($21.4 million) each for three men and a woman captured at a beach resort in September, one of the victims said in a video.
Thousands of tourists were stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of airports and blanketed villages and farmlands.
Gas produced by decaying human waste is a potentially major source of energy, providing electricity for millions of homes while improving sanitary conditions in developing countries, according to a UN report released on Tuesday.
Iranian television on Tuesday claimed that a Washington-based Lebanese citizen missing in Teheran since September is actually a US spy now in the custody of authorities.
Russia said on Tuesday it worked with opposition groups in its latest Syrian airstrikes, while the US said its pilots communicated with Russian aircraft, in tentative signs the powers are working together to end the civil war ahead of UN talks.
The first 30 refugees to be relocated from Greece boarded a plane in Athens on Wednesday bound for Luxembourg.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau was due to name an equal number of men and women to a slimmed-down Cabinet after being sworn in as Canada's 23rd prime minister on Wednesday.
A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan's capital, killing at least 41 people on the flight and on the ground, an official and a witness said.
Chipotle's industry-leading commitment to tracking its ingredients from farm to table is being put to the test by an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 37 people as of Tuesday, nearly all of whom ate recently at one of the chain's restaurants in Washington state or Oregon.
An Afghan official said a 22-year-old woman has been stoned to death by Taliban insurgents after she was accused of adultery.
At her farm nestled in the green hills of northwestern France, Marie-Francoise Brizard is helping to curb a planet-wide menace: farting and belching cows implicated in global warming.
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