Indonesia is punishing more than 20 companies in an unprecedented move for starting deadly forest fires that killed 19 people, a government official said on Tuesday.
Panama's top court has ordered the detention of former president Ricardo Martinelli, prompting the absent millionaire supermarket tycoon on Tuesday to furiously dismiss the ruling as a "political trial".
For now, the El Nino-driven mild weather is a boon to some wildlife, which are able to forage for more food and are using less energy surviving, experts say.
An archaeologist said on Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen's wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king.
India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal against the release of the youngest convict in an infamous fatal gang-rape, sparking fury from the victim's parents who said the ruling was a betrayal.
A Japanese festival focused on the art of the short film is offering a new award of nearly $1 million to a director from anywhere in the world with a great pitch for a movie.
An Australian state government has outlined its plan to increase the smoking age well above the national standard of 18. The Tasmanian government is proposing that young adults not be allowed to smoke until they are 21.
India's prime minister is expected to promote deals for Russian nuclear reactors and military helicopters worth billions of dollars on a trip to Moscow, attracted by promises to transfer technology that Western nations have been slow to make.
Thailand's government said on Monday it is not ignoring the slavery and forced labor in its lucrative shrimp industry that was highlighted in an Associated Press investigation published last week.
Spain faces a struggle to form a stable government on Monday following historic elections that saw the incumbent conservatives score a win but no majority, tailed by the long-established Socialists and upstart, far-left Podemos.
A Bangladesh court on Monday ordered the arrest of 24 people and seizure of their assets after they failed to turn up to face murder charges over the collapse of a garment factory that killed more than 1,100 people.
The host of the Miss Universe pageant mistakenly announced the wrong winner on Sunday, who then had to give up the crown and hand it over to a 26-year-old actress and model from the Philippines.
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