Traffic accidents kill about 1.25 million people each year around the world, participants at a forum on road safety warned on Wednesday, calling on countries to work to reduce the alarming figure.
For thousands of childless couples the world over, India has been the go-to destination to fulfill their dreams of becoming parents, thanks to its well-trained doctors, well-appointed fertility clinics and vast numbers of poor women willing to serve as surrogate mothers.
South Koreans in their 60s or older are facing the highest debt-servicing burden to income in the world, a state-run think tank report said on Wednesday.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected final appeals from two opposition leaders against death sentences for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, rulings that are likely to spark protests.
A Sydney court fined a Japanese company A$1 million ($709,000) on Wednesday for repeatedly killing Antarctic minke whales in an Australian Southern Ocean sanctuary.
A pair of new mobile apps hopes to help Palestinians navigate their way around snarled traffic at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, offering a high-tech response to an intractable problem: constant, burdensome and often seemingly random restrictions on movement.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday that a Malaysian man held for months by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines had been murdered, condemning what he called a "savage and barbaric" act.
A nighttime suicide bombing blamed on Boko Haram extremists killed 32 people and wounded 80 on Tuesday at a truck stop in northeastern Nigeria, an emergency official said.
Britain wants to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and lower their output from 2023, the government said on Wednesday, making it the first major economy to put a date on shutting down polluting coal plants to curb carbon emissions.
Two hundred Syrian refugees have entered South Korea, the country's intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
Bolivian President Evo Morales apologized to his health minister on Tuesday after suggesting she was a lesbian for talking with another woman as he gave a speech.
India will have 402 million Internet users by the end of this year, surpassing the United States, a report has claimed.
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