About 2.4 billion people around the world don't have access to decent sanitation, and more than 1 billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers, according to the United Nations.
The Japanese government took the local government in Okinawa to court on Tuesday, launching a legal battle in their long-standing dispute over the planned relocation of a US military air base on the southern island.
Floods in southern India and Sri Lanka have killed more than 70 people, officials and media reports said on Monday.
The Polynesian voyaging canoe that is guided solely by nature as it circles the globe has reached South Africa, the halfway point on its three-year journey and the most dangerous leg partly because of complicated ocean conditions.
Yemen's president returned to the nation's second city Aden from Saudi exile on Tuesday, a day after his loyalists launched a new offensive against Iran-backed rebels with the support of Saudi-led troops.
International auction house Sotheby's said on Tuesday it will hold its first sale of "Star Wars" memorabilia, amassed by a Japanese collector, in the run-up to the release of the new film Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December.
French President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia on Monday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks across Paris, and announced a wave of measures to combat terrorism in France.
A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a home fire rescue received the world's most extensive face transplant, New York University Langone Medical Center said on Monday.
Nearly half of the 50 US states moved on Monday to shut the door on Syrian refugees as Republican lawmakers urged a halt to the resettlement program, citing security fears following the Paris attacks.
Six people were killed over the weekend at an east Texas campsite, and a suspect has been taken into custody for suspected murder, police said on Monday.
When a 2-year-old returned sick from a visit to India, US doctors suspected tuberculosis even though standard tests said this was not so.
For more than a century, visitors have marveled at the Hermitage Museum's precious collections, and for just as long, dozens of cats have prowled the St. Petersburg palace's sprawling cellars.
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