The German Cabinet approved plans on Tuesday to commit up to 1,200 soldiers to support the international coalition fighting against the Islamic State group in Syria.
Gold mining can be a dirty, bloody business, but a village in Colombia has been rewarded for an ethical model - producing clean "green gold", which has seduced big international jewelers.
Euroskeptic Denmark was scheduled to go to the polls on Thursday in a referendum on stepping up its participation in EU police and judicial cooperation, with the outcome uncertain amid fears that include attacks and the migrant crisis.
Japan's whaling fleet set out for the Antarctic on Tuesday to resume a hunt for the mammals after a yearlong hiatus, prompting criticism from Australia and the United States.
Between plantations of bananas, mangoes and avocados, a small group of men trek along paths freshly carved out by the November rains on a mission to inform and educate in an area of western Kenya where AIDS remains rife.
As many US residents were buying online as were doing so in brick-and-mortar stores during the Thanksgiving-weekend shopping splurge, the National Retail Federation said on Sunday, highlighting a growing trend away from the traditional Black Friday consumer assault.
Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union bodies involved in peace efforts with the state of Palestine after the bloc started requiring the labeling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Japan's whaling fleet leaves on Tuesday for the Antarctic for a three-month, scaled-down hunt, the government said, despite protests from opponents who say Tokyo has not proved that whales need to be killed for research.
A former Malaysian diplomat pleaded guilty on Monday to the indecent assault of a New Zealand woman, with a court hearing that he burst into her bedroom naked from the waist down.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is reportedly close to securing its first significant global sports event in almost 40 years, in line with top leader Kim Jong-un's plans to turn the country into a sporting powerhouse.
A US investigation into a strike on an Afghan hospital run by a charity cited mistakes so "reckless" that observers said they left open the unsettling question of whether those involved had ripped up their own rule book in a chaotic effort to take out the Taliban.
Eldar Ryazanov, one of the most popular Soviet-era film directors whose comedies captured sometimes quirky aspects of life in the Soviet Union, died on Monday aged 88, family and colleagues said.
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