The East Asia Pacific region is aging at a faster rate than any other place in history, the World Bank warned on Wednesday, a demographic shift likely to cramp public services and economic growth.
The US ambassador to Thailand is under investigation for royal defamation over comments he made criticizing lengthy jail sentences from the kingdom's lese majeste law, police said on Wednesday.
Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations played down on Tuesday a dispute between Baghdad and Ankara over the deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, saying talks between the neighboring states to end the row were proceeding favorably.
US environmentalist and businessman Douglas Tompkins, the founder of outdoor clothing and equipment company The North Face, died on Tuesday during a kayaking trip in Chile, local health officials said. He was 72.
On a cold night 35 years ago, Mark David Chapman waited for John Lennon outside the New York City apartment building where the former Beatle lived with his wife, Yoko Ono, and his son.
The list of challenges confronting this blue-collar Southern California enclave was already long: a devastating municipal bankruptcy, high unemployment and crime - even a nagging yellow smog that often hung over the flat desert community.
A Polish man admitted on Tuesday to stealing a safe full of jewels, watches and cash worth about $625,000 from Chinese TV star Liu Tao, after breaking into her Copenhagen hotel room.
Japanese police arrested a South Korean man on Wednesday in connection with an explosion at the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo last month.
As a student graduating from computer college two years ago, Mohammed Qudih was dreading the "painful" unemployment in the Gaza Strip - a war-battered territory where nearly half the population is without work.
In the world of vocal groups, where singers are separated along bold gender lines with little room for gray, the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus stands out.
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Tuesday it was "assessing the credibility" of reports its strikes killed at least 26 civilians in a Syrian village on Monday.
A generation of Syrian children is facing "catastrophic" psychological damage, with 1 in 4 inside Syria at risk of developing a mental health disorder from witnessing traumatic events, a global children's charity said on Tuesday.
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