The head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century was returned by France and reattached to its body on Thursday for display at a museum, more than 130 years after it was spirited away.
After decades checking their rearview mirrors for the threat from rail and air transport, truckers around the world are facing their latest rival head-on: driverless trucks.
A court in the Republic of Korea said in a statement on Thursday that it had acquitted a ROK citizen of sympathizing with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for following its Twitter account. It said that simply reading Pyongyang's social media posts did not violate the security laws of the country.
Pakistanis buried their dead and observed a day of nationwide mourning on Thursday following the brazen attack by Islamic militants who stormed a northwestern university the previous day, gunning down students and teachers and spreading terror before the four gunmen were slain by the military.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Moscow does not consider the conclusions of a British inquiry into the 2006 death of a former Russian spy to be impartial because it claims the result had been predetermined, and said the inquiry had been "politicized".
A US citizen has found out the hard way that a "world passport" isn't accepted in South Africa.
Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari said on Thursday he is investigating accusations that he and his aides took bribes from a construction company but that he was confident he had not done anything wrong.
Jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed left for the UK on Thursday following a stopover in Sri Lanka after the islands' government granted him prison leave for urgent surgery, his party said.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could face questions from Swedish prosecutors "in the coming days" at his hideout in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said on Wednesday.
"A sunburned country ... with a pitiless blue sky", so the famous poem goes, but where once Australia could rely on "steady, soaking rain", a trend of hotter and drier weather as the climate warms is making it more vulnerable to severe bush fires.
Kiyoshi Kimura's ear-to-ear grin is tough to miss in Japan - it's splashed across ubiquitous billboards advertising his nationwide sushi chain.
From an economic point of view, it all seemed to make sense.
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