Persistent rains have cleared the air across vast stretches of Southeast Asia that have choked for weeks on hazardous smoke from Indonesian fires, with officials and citizens expressing hope on Thursday that the crisis could soon end.
Google's Internet-beaming balloons are ready to take off on the next phase of their mission to deliver online access in regions where most people live offline.
Nepalese lawmakers elected a longtime women's rights campaigner as the country's first female president on Wednesday, as the Himalayan nation pushes for more gender equality in politics and work life.
Islamic State has abducted 48 media workers in its Mosul, Iraq, stronghold since June 2014 and executed at least 13 of them, watchdogs said.
Iran is taking part in international talks on Syria for the first time this week, giving it a voice in the effort to find a resolution to the more than 4-year-old civil war that has so far defied even the slightest progress toward peace.
Investigators discovered atrocities by all sides in South Sudan's civil war, including forced cannibalism and the discovery of mass graves, according to a long-awaited report by the African Union.
At least 11 migrants died in the eastern Aegean Sea on Wednesday in five separate incidents, including a large shipwreck from which 242 others were rescued by the Greek coast guard.
Austria announced plans on Wednesday to build a fence at a major border crossing with fellow EU state Slovenia to "control" the migrant influx, in a blow to the bloc's cherished passport-free Schengen zone.
Archaeologists unearthed a spectacular 3,500-year-old unlooted grave of a warrior in the Peloponnese peninsula in "the most impressive discovery of prehistoric funerary wealth in Greece in the past 65 years", according to the Greek Culture Ministry on Tuesday.
Iran could join international talks over Syria's future for the first time later this week, as the United States declared itself ready to engage its longtime foe if it might help halt Syria's four-year civil war.
A girl who refused to surrender her phone after texting in math class was flipped backward and tossed across the classroom floor by a sheriff's deputy, prompting a federal civil rights probe on Tuesday.
The US embargo on Cuba, which the UN General Assembly formally condemned on Tuesday, is not about international politics for Elizabeth Navarro. It's what keeps her 7-year-old daughter from getting the cancer drug she needs.
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