Liberal leader Justin Trudeau was due to name an equal number of men and women to a slimmed-down Cabinet after being sworn in as Canada's 23rd prime minister on Wednesday.
A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan's capital, killing at least 41 people on the flight and on the ground, an official and a witness said.
Chipotle's industry-leading commitment to tracking its ingredients from farm to table is being put to the test by an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 37 people as of Tuesday, nearly all of whom ate recently at one of the chain's restaurants in Washington state or Oregon.
An Afghan official said a 22-year-old woman has been stoned to death by Taliban insurgents after she was accused of adultery.
At her farm nestled in the green hills of northwestern France, Marie-Francoise Brizard is helping to curb a planet-wide menace: farting and belching cows implicated in global warming.
The next revolution in space, making humdrum what was long the special preserve of tax-funded giants like NASA, will be launching next year from a paddock in New Zealand's South Island.
Internet giant Alphabet Inc, the new holding company for Google, expects to begin delivering packages to consumers via drones sometime in 2017, the executive in charge of its drone effort said on Monday.
Egypt's president has dismissed claims that a Russian passenger jet was downed by a branch of Islamic State as propaganda, after the airline said the crash, which killed all 224 people on board, was due to "external" factors.
Melting ice in West Antarctica is a major concern for global sea levels, and a key area may already be unstable enough to unleash 3 meters of ocean rise, scientists said.
The visiting UN special envoy to Syria said on Monday that working groups he proposed to discuss solutions to the deadlocked Syrian crisis are going to be launched soon.
Iran has begun shutting down uranium enrichment centrifuges under the terms of a deal struck with six world powers in July on limiting its nuclear program, Teheran's atomic energy chief said on Monday during a visit to Tokyo.
South African state prosecutors were due on Tuesday to argue in court for Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder and sent back to prison, two weeks after he was released on house arrest.
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