As crews made inroads against massive wildfires burning in north-central Washington state, residents and business owners began to assess just how damaging the huge blazes have been.
Researchers returned on Sunday from mapping and sampling a massive swirling cluster of trash floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as the Dutch-borne crew works to refine a cleanup strategy it will roll out globally.
President Otto Perez dismissed corruption allegations leveled against him by prosecutors and said on Sunday he will not stand down, despite mounting pressure on the government and calls for his impeachment as a presidential election looms.
A series of attacks in Sweden on beggars, many Roma, has highlighted a dark side to a country considered a bastion of tolerance.
Typhoon Goni lashed the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa with heavy rains and winds on Monday, as the death toll rose to 19 in the northern Philippines.
When Bao Bao celebrated her second birthday on Sunday, she did not realize the gift from her mom, Mei Xiang, would be two siblings.
The arrest of MtGox boss Mark Karpeles has begun to shed light on the defunct Bitcoin exchange after hundreds of millions of dollars in virtual currency vanished from its digital vaults last year.
Britain reopened its embassy in Teheran on Sunday, a striking signal of how Western ties with Iran have thawed since protesters ransacked the ambassador's residence and burned the Union Jack nearly four years ago.
Almost 70 percent of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's submarines were undetected on Sunday, with the second round of high-level contact under way in the truce village of Panmunjom, a Defense Ministry official of the Republic of Korea was citied as saying.
Hundreds of migrants crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia on Sunday after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to Western Europe following days of chaos and confrontation.
The man who boarded a high-speed Amsterdam-to-Paris train with a Kalashnikov rifle before being tackled by passengers was on the radar of authorities in three countries, had ties to radical Islam and may have traveled to Syria, authorities said.
Three US contractors were among 12 people killed by a Kabul bomb that targeted their NATO convoy, the US-led coalition said, making the attack one of the most lethal for US citizens in Afghanistan in recent years.
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