The United States had a plan for an extensive cyberattack on Iran in case diplomatic attempts to curtail its nuclear program failed, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing a forthcoming documentary and military and intelligence officials.
US President Barack Obama hammered home his belief on Tuesday that Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump would not be elected, knocking his reality show past and penchant for drawing media attention.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was placed under formal investigation on Tuesday over irregularities in his 2012 re-election campaign finances, the Paris Prosecutor said, dealing a serious blow to his hopes of running again in 2017.
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.
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