Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that growing, possessing and smoking marijuana for recreation is legal under the right to freedom.
Animal rights advocates are seeking homes for scores of dogs that had been raised for the canine meat market in the Republic of Korea but were sent to the United States for adoption after their breeder switched to growing rice, the head of a regional Humane Society said on Wednesday.
Russia has sent air defense systems to Syria to protect its forces there, Syria's state news agency SANA said on Thursday, citing a Russian official.
Evidence now suggests that a bomb planted by the Islamic State militant group is the likely cause of last weekend's crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, US and European security sources said on Wednesday.
Shortly after World War II ended, three US airmen took off from Singapore aboard a military transport on a flight to northern present-day Malaysia. The plane never arrived.
As an army of laborers churn out limestone bricks, archaeologist Prashantha Mandawala reflects on the ambitious task of restoring Sri Lanka's centuries-old Jaffna fort, destroyed by ethnic war.
Three out of four Australian adults say they have no regrets about never having children, according to a study released on Wednesday.
A small but violent al-Qaida-linked Islamist group in the Philippines has demanded 1 billion pesos ($21.4 million) each for three men and a woman captured at a beach resort in September, one of the victims said in a video.
Thousands of tourists were stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of airports and blanketed villages and farmlands.
Gas produced by decaying human waste is a potentially major source of energy, providing electricity for millions of homes while improving sanitary conditions in developing countries, according to a UN report released on Tuesday.
Iranian television on Tuesday claimed that a Washington-based Lebanese citizen missing in Teheran since September is actually a US spy now in the custody of authorities.
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