Mankind's first close-up look at Pluto did not disappoint on Wednesday: The pictures showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and chasms on its largest moon, Charon, that appear six times deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Egypt's Cabinet has amended a draft counterterrorism law so that journalists would be fined, rather than jailed, for contradicting the authorities' version of any terrorist attack, the state news agency reported.
Israel is responsible for the 2008 murder of a top security aide of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to secret US intelligence files.
Swiss authorities said one of the seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich as part of a US corruption probe has been extradited to the United States.
Greece's troubled left-wing government was seeking urgent relief from European lenders on Thursday, after it pushed a harsh austerity package through Parliament, triggering a revolt in the governing party and violent demonstrations in central Athens.
US President Barack Obama launched an aggressive and detailed defense of a landmark Iranian nuclear accord, rejecting the idea that it leaves Teheran on the brink of a bomb and arguing the only alternative to the diplomatic deal is war.
On their son Bryce's birthday this year, Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand and her husband, Rob, went to a Dutch air base, watched pallbearers solemnly unload seven coffins from a military cargo plane, and wondered if they contained parts of the remains of Bryce or his girlfriend, Daisy Oehlers.
For the past two years, Ramjanam Mauriya has made countless journeys to the Azamgarh magistrate's office in northern India, laden with stacks of documents to prove he is not a ghost.
A major Japanese corporation will offer a landmark apology this weekend for forcing US prisoners of war to work under brutal conditions at its plants during World War II, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is hosting the event.
An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on Tuesday and survived its close encounter with the distant dwarf planet after a journey of 4.8 billion kilometers and nearly 10 years.
An autopsy has found that guitar legend B.B. King died of natural causes, rejecting his daughters' claims of foul play.
Author Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, buzzed with excitement on Tuesday over the long-awaited release of her novel Go Set a Watchman.
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