Government forces expect to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western Iraqi city of Ramadi within days, state television said on Wednesday, citing army chief of staff Othman al-Ghanemi.
When Silent Night was born in Austria almost 200 years ago, those present had little idea that the Christmas carol would one day be sung the world over, including this year by Miley Cyrus and some Swedish goats.
The US government took steps on Monday to protect lions in Africa from American big-game trophy hunters by listing two lion subspecies under the Endangered Species Act.
X-ray vision, a comic book fantasy for decades, is becoming a reality in a lab at MIT.
New York City has warned landlords, employers and businesses they could be running afoul of the law by purposely calling a transgender woman "him" or "Mr." when she prefers a female title and pronoun, or by barring her from using a women's restroom.
Whenever retired tailor Meri Giannoni spoke to the director of her bank branch about how to invest her savings, she said to him: "Please treat me as if I were your mum."
Japan chose a scaled-down design on Tuesday for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, five months after scrapping the initial design and construction plan for being too costly.
Australia's federal government formally approved a plan on Tuesday to dredge vast swathes of seabed sediment from an area near the Great Barrier Reef as part of a major coal port expansion, after rejecting arguments by environmentalists that it will hurt the area's fragile ecosystem.
Russian military officials said on Monday they would call on more specialists to help decipher the damaged black box of a warplane shot down by Turkey after a first attempt to read the device failed.
Somali Islamist militants sprayed a Kenyan bus with bullets on Monday, killing two people, but a passenger said he and fellow Muslims defied demands from the attackers to help identify Christians traveling with them.
A court in the Republic of Korea has awarded millions of dollars in compensation to victims of a fabricated espionage case that took place four decades ago, a court spokesman said on Tuesday.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen threatened severe reprisals late on Monday against rebels in the neighboring country, after they fired a fourth ballistic missile in as many days toward Saudi territory.
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