A 65-year-old Middle East respiratory syndrome patient died on June 6 at a hospital in Lower Saxony, a spokesman for the Niels-Stensen-Kliniken said on Tuesday.
Rachel Dolezal carefully constructed a life as a black civil rights activist in the last decade in the US northwest, but that world is falling apart following the disclosure by her parents that she was a white woman who for years has posed as African-American.
Two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is still under attack in Britain, where the image persists of a military genius consumed by a fanaticism comparable with Hitler.
The Philippines' largest rebel group retired nearly 150 guerrillas and handed over 75 firearms for decommissioning on Tuesday to encourage the nation's Congress to pass a proposed law giving minority Muslims self-rule.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty on Tuesday for a top Islamist party leader over atrocities committed during the war of independence more than four decades ago, paving the way for his execution.
Two South Korean hospitals are conducting experimental treatment on patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome, injecting them with blood plasma from recovering patients, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday as four new cases were reported.
A former British ambassador to Japan expressed in an article his concerns that Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leaders could threaten its long-term national interests through policies that could lead to a more autocratic and nationalist regime, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Al-Qaida confirmed on Tuesday that Nasir al-Wahishi, its No 2 figure and leader of its powerful Yemeni affiliate, was killed in a US strike, making it the harshest blow to the global militant network since the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush launched a White House bid months in the making with a vow to win the Republican presidential nomination on his own merits and stay true to his beliefs - easier said than done in a crowded primary contest, where his conservative credentials will be sharply challenged.
Atul Khare, UN undersecretary-general for field support, welcomed on Monday the evaluation report on the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel during peacekeeping operations, a UN spokesman said.
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed president Mohammed Morsi to death on Tuesday for killing, kidnapping and other offenses during a 2011 mass jailbreak.
Police said they were hunting on Tuesday for three sisters and their nine children who were feared to be traveling to Syria to join a relative believed to be involved in the conflict.
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