Egypt has unearthed further evidence that a secret chamber, believed by some to be the lost burial site of Queen Nefertiti, may lie behind King Tutankhamun's tomb, Egypt's antiquities minister said on Thursday.
Last May, as the first cases of Zika were being detected in Brazil, cities at the frontlines of the epidemic stopped receiving government shipments of insecticide to kill mosquitoes.
Turkey's prime minister raised hopes of a deal with EU leaders to help stem the influx of migrants into Europe, but France and Germany warned of difficult talks as both sides grapple with how to send refugees back from Greece.
Former president Pervez Musharraf, who faces charges of treason and murder, has left Pakistan for treatment abroad.
Iraq's only music and ballet school has survived decades of war, sanctions and dictatorship, but now faces a funding crisis due to low oil prices and the costly war against the Islamic State group.
Health professionals and campaigners on Thursday stepped up pressure on the New Zealand government to introduce a sugar tax, following the surprise announcement of such a tax in the United Kingdom.
More than three years after a botched fresco restoration by an octogenarian painter became a major tourist attraction for a northern Spanish town, local officials looking to inject new life into the phenomenon opened a center on Wednesday that celebrates the fresco.
For 20 years, Irish-American Emmaia Gelman has been on the sidelines of New York's storied St. Patrick's Day Parade every March, protesting instead of participating.
A Thai gardener behind a $20 million gem heist from a Saudi palace that has long soured relations between the two countries became a monk on Thursday in hope of redeeming his karma.
Protests have erupted in Brazil after a recorded phone call between President Dilma Rousseff and her once-popular predecessor was released, suggesting that she appointed him to her Cabinet to spare him from arrest for corruption.
An ex-metalworker who became one of Brazil's most popular presidents, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is now putting his increasingly threatened legacy on the line for his embattled successor.
Japan said on Thursday it was investigating footage of a man identifying himself as a Japanese journalist believed missing in Syria, who appeared to be speaking under duress and seeking the government's help.
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