European Union leaders offered African counterparts aid and better access to Europe at a summit on Wednesday in return for help curbing chaotic migration across the Mediterranean and promises to take back those Europe expels.
Montreal, Canada's second-largest city, began dumping untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday, angering environmentalists with a repair operation that could release as much as 8 billion liters of wastewater into a major waterway.
South Korea's top court upheld on Thursday a lifetime sentence for the captain of the ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people, most of them teenagers on a school trip.
Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady are facing arraignment in New York after being arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into the United States, people familiar with the case said.
Key Western powers and the United Nations are discussing the possible deployment of international peacekeepers to Burundi if the violence in the African country spirals into a full-scale ethnic conflict, diplomats said on Wednesday.
World nations struck a landmark deal on Wednesday on using satellites to track flights, which could prove key to preventing a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March last year.
The rare and flawless "Blue Moon Diamond" sold for $48.4 million to a Hong Kong buyer on Wednesday, setting a world record for a gemstone at auction, Sotheby's said.
Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cooking stove with kindling, kerosene and sun-baked discs of cow dung.
Workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell and other chain restaurants protested in cities around the United States on Tuesday to push fast-food companies to pay them at least $15 an hour. The protesters also had a message for presidential candidates: Support the cause or lose their vote next year.
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, moving closer to an absolute majority in parliament on Wednesday, requested a meeting with the president and the powerful military chief to discuss national reconciliation.
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.
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