Japan's first passenger jet made its first test flight on Wednesday, a landmark in a decadelong program to launch the plane aimed at competing with Brazilian and Canadian rivals in the global market for smaller aircraft.
Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol.
The political crisis in the Maldives deepened, with lawmakers voting to fire the country's chief public prosecutor, after he refused to press corruption charges against the country's sacked vice-president.
Syrian soldiers fought their way into an air base in northern Syria on Tuesday and freed military personnel inside, state television said, after a nearly two-year siege by Islamic State insurgents at the facility.
Four people were indicted on Tuesday in a massive hacking scheme by a "diversified criminal conglomerate" that compromised data from millions of customers of JPMorgan Chase and other firms, officials said.
An estimated 11 million children are at risk from hunger, disease and lack of water in eastern and southern Africa as a result of a strengthening El Nino, the UN children's fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday. El Nino is also causing droughts and floods in parts of Asia, the Pacific and Latin America, it added.
As tens of thousands of Russian tourists hastily leave Egypt's economically vital seaside resorts, a top Kremlin official issued an ominous warning on Tuesday: They're not coming back anytime soon.
Three Turkish policemen were killed after Kurdish insurgents opened fire on a police car in the southeast near the border with Iraq, officials said, the latest in a string of clashes in the mainly Kurdish region.
India's villages face a sharp increase in food prices next year. A second year of drought is driving up the cost of ingredients such as sugar and milk, and poor transportation infrastructure is preventing falling global prices from reaching rural areas.
The 16th World White Truffle of Alba Auction in Grinzane Cavour, northern Italy, over the weekend was a head-to-head contest between Italy and China.
Fresh results from Myanmar's election on Tuesday showed the opposition taking control of most regional assemblies as well as forming the next government, handing Aung San Suu Kyi sweeping powers and reshaping the political landscape.
A Thai court's examination of 500 witnesses in a case against 88 suspected human traffickers will take as long as two years, a court official said on Tuesday.
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