The US head of Volkswagen prepared to apologize to Congress on Thursday over the "deeply troubling" pollution scandal as it emerged he knew of a potential problem with vehicle emissions as early as spring 2014.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she does not support the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, reached on Monday after marathon talks between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
A Japanese climber who lost nine fingers to frostbite on Mount Qomolangma, known as Mount Everest in the West, three year ago, will make his final push for the summit late on Wednesday, organizers said.
Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the US, and Turkish-American Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA.
Suicide bombers with the Islamic State group killed 22 people on Tuesday in attacks on Yemen's government and its Gulf Arab coalition ally in the port city of Aden and on a Houthi-run mosque in the capital, Sanaa, the jihadist group and state media said.
The deadly US attack on a hospital in Afghanistan, which US officials have called a "mistake", leaves open the possibility that the decision to open fire exceeded the authority under which US forces have operated since their combat mission ended nearly a year ago, officials say.
The Syrian army and allied militia, backed by Russian airstrikes, carried out ground attacks on insurgent positions in Syria on Wednesday in what appeared to be their first major coordinated assault since Moscow intervened last week, a monitor said.
Singapore's Foreign Ministry has sent a formal request to Indonesia for the names of companies suspected of contributing to haze pollution, the ministry said on Wednesday.
Nearly 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, elk, deer, boar and wolves are thriving in the exclusion zone deserted by humans, researchers have reported in an international study.
Authorities in Eastern Europe working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists.
US authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macao real estate developer and four others on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.
The Carolinas saw sunshine on Tuesday after days of inundation, but it could take weeks to recover from being pummeled by a historic rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and 17 deaths.
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