Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the release of a group of Qatari hunters kidnapped in the south of the country, his representative said on Friday.
It's a weekday morning and Chung Sang-hoon, 34, is at home with his two small children, classical music playing in the background.
A Thai court sentenced two Myanmar migrant workers to death on Thursday after convicting them of the 2014 murders of two young British tourists on a holiday island in a case mired in controversy and a dispute over DNA testing.
Video footage of Jewish zealots mocking the death by arson of a Palestinian baby has sparked outrage in Israel, even as some on the far right saw in the leak a possible bid to justify tough interrogation of suspects in the killing.
After her eldest son Amanto became one of the 50 children to drown on an average day in Bangladesh, Jahanara Anwar was determined that his younger brother join the world's biggest swimming lesson.
An unemployed Senegalese man who was rescued by the Spanish coast guard after making a risky journey from Morocco eight years ago on a packed wooden boat won 400,000 euros ($437,000) in Spain's annual Christmas lottery, local media reported on Wednesday.
A British Muslim family, which includes nine children, were barred from going to Disneyland after US officials prevented them from flying to Los Angeles, British media reported on Wednesday.
A storm system forecasters called "particularly dangerous" killed at least six people as it swept across the country, with tornadoes touching down in Indiana and Mississippi.
The Japanese Cabinet approved a record-high military spending plan on Thursday, marking the fourth consecutive year that spending on defense has increased.
A fire at a hospital in Saudi Arabia killed 25 people and injured more than 100 others as it ripped through the intensive care unit and the maternity ward before dawn, the Saudi civil defense agency said.
Some 100,000 residents in Paraguay have been evacuated due to the rising waters just days before Christmas celebrations.
In a dimly lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds slowly sit up inside the wooden coffins where they had been lying, enclosed, for 10 minutes. Blinking, pale and solemn, they say they thought about their past and their loved ones while inside the coffins and vow to live better lives now.
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