The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for killing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights organization said on Monday at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting spotlighting violence and discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.
When foreign mining companies and Western donors were pulling funds out of Madagascar following a coup in 2009, Austral Resources Chief Executive Scott Reid did the opposite and poured money in to the Indian Ocean island.
Police in more than 20 North American cities are testing the latest in less-lethal alternatives to bullets - "blunt impact projectiles" that cause suspects excruciating pain but stop short of killing them. Or at least that's the goal.
Typhoon Goni slammed into the Japanese mainland on Tuesday, leaving 13 people with minor injuries and disrupting rail and flight services, as the government issued an evacuation advisory for more than 100,000 residents.
Advocates for making the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico the 51st US state say its economic woes are strengthening their arguments.
Death threats are nothing new for Asif Quaraishi, but the gay Muslim hopes that a documentary about Muslim drag queens will encourage gay British Asians to come out of the closet rather than provoke a backlash against Britain's "hidden" community.
A blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post and a blaze broke out at a steel plant on Monday in the Tokyo area.
Protesters urging the Lebanese government to resign over a trash crisis said on Monday they were postponing an additional demonstration and were regrouping after violent clashes erupted in Beirut on Sunday night.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected on Monday to call snap elections likely to be held on Nov 1 after efforts to form a coalition government failed.
Thai police found and defused a bomb on Monday, a week after an explosion killed 20 people in the country's worst-ever bomb attack. However, it was not clear if the device found at a Bangkok construction site had anything to do with the earlier blast.
The two sides on the Korean Peninsula kept their militaries on their highest alert, as inter-Korean crisis talks entered their third day on Monday.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday he expected sanctions on Iran could start to be lifted as early as spring next year.
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