Alan Bond, the high-flying Australian businessman, America's Cup hero and convicted fraudster, died on Friday at age 77 following complications from open heart surgery.
Under the glittering dome of the Invalides military hospital in Paris, where Napoleon lies buried, France's great general continues to divide opinion, 200 years after his historic defeat at Waterloo.
A young girl in a bright pink dress tiptoes around the edge of a cage containing a white Bengal tiger, as young couples walk by with strollers.
Hundreds more schools closed on Thursday in South Korea as officials struggled to ease growing panic over an outbreak of the MERS virus that has infected 35 people, killed two and caused thousands to cancel travel plans.
The Republic of Korea said on Thursday it had agreed to a request from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to install thermal-imaging cameras at their Kaesong joint industrial zone to prevent the spread of the MERS virus into the DPRK.
Eight days after returning from a business trip to the Middle East, a 68-year-old man in South Korea developed a cough and fever.
One of Australia's most prominent, colorful and controversial public figures continued to fight for his life in a Perth hospital on Thursday.
For Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, failure in the legislative elections on Sunday is simply not an option.
The Pentagon disclosed on Wednesday that it inadvertently shipped possibly live anthrax to at least 51 laboratories across the US and in three other countries over the past decade, but it has yet to determine how it happened, who is to blame, why it was not discovered earlier and how much worse the embarrassment will get.
An explosion at a gasoline refueling station in Ghana's capital, Accra, killed about 90 people, many of whom had sought shelter there from torrential rain, on Wednesday night, the fire brigade said.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on Wednesday to condemn violence against women after a series of murders.
Europe's human rights court will decide on Friday if a man in a vegetative state can be taken off life support in a case that ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.
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