A modern-day glassblower believes he has unraveled the mysteries of Renaissance-era Venetian glassmaking, a trade whose secrets were so closely guarded that anyone who divulged them faced the prospect of death.
With hours to go and $63 million on the line, the mystery remains: Where's the winning California Lottery ticket and why hasn't somebody cashed it?
The peace talks in the Syrian civil conflict are taking a break. The fighting is not.
US President Barack Obama made his first visit to a mosque in the United States on Wednesday, in an effort to allay public fears fueled by pop-culture portrayals of Muslims as terrorists, and to reassure Muslim American youth about their place in the nation.
Investigators suspect the al-Shabaab militant group was behind a likely bomb blast that forced an Airbus A321 into an emergency landing this week in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, US government sources said on Wednesday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he took refuge in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, and accept arrest on Friday if a UN panel investigating his case rules against him, he said in a statement.
Cologne was scheduled to host its annual carnival from Thursday with beefed-up security to prevent a repeat of the sex assaults that marred New Year's festivities and ignited a debate about Germany's ability to integrate asylum seekers.
Indonesia has gone a step closer to allowing chemical castration as a punishment for child sex offenders, according to the country's National Commission on Child Protection.
Four years after Shishir Chand's brother died when his heart condition was allegedly misdiagnosed as gas, his fight for compensation has barely begun in India's notoriously slow justice system.
It seemed too good to be true: An old wooden desk carved with the initials "JFK" from the private school in Connecticut where John F. Kennedy studied as a boy.
Puppies bark and wag their tails as they follow a gray-haired woman through a hillside compound that shelters more than 200 dogs.
Police in Australia investigating threatening phone calls that led to the evacuation of more than 30 schools in recent days said on Wednesday they suspected the hoax calls originated overseas and were part of a sophisticated hacking system.
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