Former president Pervez Musharraf, who faces charges of treason and murder, has left Pakistan for treatment abroad.
Iraq's only music and ballet school has survived decades of war, sanctions and dictatorship, but now faces a funding crisis due to low oil prices and the costly war against the Islamic State group.
Health professionals and campaigners on Thursday stepped up pressure on the New Zealand government to introduce a sugar tax, following the surprise announcement of such a tax in the United Kingdom.
More than three years after a botched fresco restoration by an octogenarian painter became a major tourist attraction for a northern Spanish town, local officials looking to inject new life into the phenomenon opened a center on Wednesday that celebrates the fresco.
For 20 years, Irish-American Emmaia Gelman has been on the sidelines of New York's storied St. Patrick's Day Parade every March, protesting instead of participating.
A Thai gardener behind a $20 million gem heist from a Saudi palace that has long soured relations between the two countries became a monk on Thursday in hope of redeeming his karma.
Protests have erupted in Brazil after a recorded phone call between President Dilma Rousseff and her once-popular predecessor was released, suggesting that she appointed him to her Cabinet to spare him from arrest for corruption.
An ex-metalworker who became one of Brazil's most popular presidents, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is now putting his increasingly threatened legacy on the line for his embattled successor.
Japan said on Thursday it was investigating footage of a man identifying himself as a Japanese journalist believed missing in Syria, who appeared to be speaking under duress and seeking the government's help.
Authorities in greater Mexico City extended an air pollution alert for a fourth day, as smog levels improved slightly but pollution remained at almost 1.5 times acceptable limits in some areas.
Russia will complete the withdrawal of most of its military contingent in Syria in two to three days, Russian Air Force Commander Viktor Bondarev said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily, published on Thursday.
They are as old as the Syrian war: Five-year-old Syrian children growing up as refugees in foreign, unfamiliar places far away from home.
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