The first recording contract signed by The Beatles, which set the career course for the legendary band, was sold at a New York auction Saturday for a hammer price of $75,000.
Japan's parliament enacted a major shift in defense policy on Saturday, which could allow Japanese troops to fight overseas for the first time since the nation's defeat at end of World War II 1945.
Airstrikes carried out by a Saudi-led coalition against Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies have killed 29 people, including civilians, in the capital Sanaa, security and medical officials in the city said Saturday.
Nepal was scheduled to adopt its first full democratic constitution on Sunday, a historic step for a nation that has seen war, violence and devastating earthquakes since a campaign to create a modern state began more than 65 years ago.
Burkina Faso will reinstate an interim government led by President Michel Kafando, Beninese leader Thomas Boni Yayi said on Saturday, in what would amount to a victory for the street over army coup leaders.
Saudi Arabia has deployed 100,000 security personnel to oversee the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage that begins on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry spokesman said, underscoring both the massive arrangements needed to secure one of the largest pilgrimages in the world and the multitude of threats the hajj faces.
Crowded aboard buses and trains, thousands more migrants flooded into Austria on Sunday from countries unable or unwilling to cope with a desperate human tide fleeing war and poverty for a better life in Western Europe.
Greece's former left-wing prime minister Alexis Tsipras declared on Sunday he was confident of winning a second mandate for a "fighting government" to reform and revive the crisis-hit nation's economy, as voters cast ballots in a knife-edge race.
The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years.
When the Thai military says cadets can't bring phones to training, they mean it.
Australia's postage service is often referred to as "snail mail" due to its less-than speedy service - a reputation that seems deserved after a parcel reached its destination 40 years late on Friday.
Road and rail routes to northern Europe from the Balkans were closing to migrants on Friday, after a string of countries closed their borders to a relentless human wave.
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