Delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States held talks on Monday to resurrect a stalled peace process and end 15 years of bloodshed, even as fighting with Taliban insurgents intensifies.
In a cloak-and-dagger plot fit for a Hollywood movie, US actor Sean Penn met secretly in the Mexican jungle in October with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, conducting an explosive interview released a day after the drug kingpin's recapture.
No one won Saturday's record jackpot of nearly $950 million in the multistate Powerball lottery, officials said, driving the haul for a winning ticket in the next draw to $1.3 billion, lottery officials said.
For 35 years since the death of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, tens of thousands of his belongings have been the subject of legal wrangling.
Pakistan will present a list of Taliban willing to negotiate with Kabul at a four-nation meeting this week aimed at reviving the Afghan peace process, an Afghan official said on Sunday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday backed stricter laws to expel convicted refugees, as clashes erupted at far-right protests in Cologne over a rash of sexual assaults blamed on asylum seekers.
German police on Saturday raided an asylum seeker shelter where they said the man who sought to attack a Paris police station on Thursday had lived.
Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier in their car on the outskirts of Cairo on Saturday, Egypt's state news agency said, a day after suspected militants armed with knives wounded three European tourists in a Red Sea resort.
Two people have died and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed in a huge bushfire, Australian authorities said on Sunday, as firefighters battled to tame the blaze.
Congressman wants to take highest US civilian honor from comic accused of rape
Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a frenzied mating ritual by dinosaurs: long grooves in the ground etched by the pawing of clawed feet.
Plea for full facts of mass assaults on women in Cologne over New Year's Eve to be established
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