The crowd was small at first, but as the din of car horns grew louder, so did the number of Iranians celebrating a long-awaited nuclear deal in Teheran late on Tuesday.
Pakistan's military, long accused of harboring insurgents who fight its cause in Afghanistan and beyond, said its role in brokering landmark Taliban peace talks last week proves it is serious about tackling Islamist militancy in the region.
Yemeni forces recaptured Aden's international airport and some city districts from Houthi militia fighters in a sudden advance after months of stalemate, the exiled government said.
Australians are happier living in small towns rather than big cities, and men get more out of marriage than women, according to a landmark "happiness" survey of Australians conducted by the University of Melbourne.
A German court on Wednesday sentenced a former Nazi SS officer known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" to four years in jail, in what is expected to be one of the last Holocaust trials.
Mexico's most prized prisoner paced his cell, first to the latrine, then the shower, then the bed.
US President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision on Tuesday for fixing the US criminal justice system by focusing on communities, courtrooms and cellblocks. He announced a federal review of the use of solitary confinement and urged Congress to pass a sentencing reform bill by year's end.
Greece prepared on Wednesday for a parliamentary vote on draconian reforms demanded by eurozone creditors in exchange for a huge new bailout, just hours after a bombshell report from the International Monetary Fund criticized the deal.
Jurors were due to begin deliberating on Wednesday whether accused "Batman" theater gunman James Holmes was sane when he coldbloodedly opened fire on a packed Colorado cinema three years ago.
An "extreme terror tour" of the Australian forest where a notorious killer buried seven backpackers in the 1990s was attacked on Tuesday as "horrendous" and insensitive to the families of the victims.
Japan's Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki urged the Japanese government on Monday to maintain the country's 70-year-old principle of pacifism and to drop a controversial plan to build a replacement for a US air base on Okinawa.
An unmanned spacecraft, New Horizons, flying past Pluto after a decadelong journey, has proved that the planet is larger than all other known objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, the US space agency NASA said.
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