UK Prime Minister David Cameron entered the final stretch of negotiations to help keep his country in the European Union on Wednesday ahead of a crunch summit, after the European Commission's chief insisted a so-called Brexit is not an option.
After two years of painstaking work, experts have completed the initial phase of a delicate restoration project at the Church of the Nativity, giving a much-needed face-lift to one of Christianity's holiest sites.
Walter Yacoboski scraped together nearly every penny he made as a cook in 1979 to begin buying a small collection of rare comic books for $10,000, hoping his boyhood passion could one day pay off as an investment.
Taylor Swift made history on Monday as the first woman to win the top Grammy twice, but rapper Kendrick Lamar took home five awards and delivered a politically charged performance that rocked the gala.
From toy-sized Brussels Griffons to 180-pound Irish Wolfhounds, hundreds of purebred dogs kicked off the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York on Monday, putting their best paws forward in hopes of advancing toward the gold.
Students, journalists and teachers protested in the Indian capital on Tuesday after a student union leader's arrest and subsequent violence by Hindu nationalists.
Four prison guards in northern Vietnam have been suspended for alleged negligence after a female inmate, on death row for drug trafficking, became pregnant, which means her death sentence will be commuted to life in prison once her child is born, state media reported on Tuesday.
A letter from a man to his mother flown out of Paris by hot air balloon during the Prussian siege in 1870 has turned up in Australia's National Archives, which said on Tuesday it was keen to discover the family's fate.
Eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has sparked a firestorm of criticism in the Philippines after describing gay couples as "worse than animals".
Hopes for a cease-fire in Syria were fading on Tuesday, after dozens were killed in airstrikes on hospitals that France branded war crimes and the Syrian president said implementing a truce would prove "difficult".
The United States will dispatch nuclear-capable F-22 fighter jets to the Republic of Korea in an apparent show of force to militarily pressure the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.
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