India's top court has ordered a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel cars in New Delhi and hiked a levy on trucks entering the city, as the country's highly polluted capital seeks ways to tackle one of its worst-ever bouts of toxic smog.
Los Angeles schools were due to reopen on Wednesday after authorities determined that an e-mailed threat prompting the shutdown of the second-largest school district in the United States was not deemed credible.
Swiss banks released on Wednesday the names of more than 2,600 holders of accounts that have lain dormant for at least 60 years, giving them or their heirs one last chance to claim their wealth before it reverts to the state.
US prosecutors are preparing to unveil drug trafficking charges against the head of Venezuela's National Guard, according to people familiar with the case, as the United States investigates the suspected involvement of senior Venezuelan officials in the cocaine trade.
Iran violated a UN resolution in October when it test-launched a medium-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a UN panel of experts has concluded in a report that could lead to sanctions.
A draft resolution to be submitted to the UN Security Council takes "explicit" aim at the Islamic State group and its lucrative trade in oil, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Wednesday.
Turkey will establish a military base in Qatar as part of a defense agreement aimed at helping them confront "common enemies", Turkey's ambassador to Qatar said on Wednesday.
The announcement published by the state-run Saudi Press Agency said the alliance will be Saudi-led and is being established because terrorism "should be fought by all means, and collaboration should be made to eliminate it".
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said his office was raided by federal investigators on Tuesday on the orders of Narendra Modi, in the latest clash between the feisty local politician and India's prime minister.
New Zealanders chose a new flag design on Tuesday that will be put up as a challenger to their current flag in a March vote.
Germany will reduce its migrant influx, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised her conservative party on Monday, insisting that she's still confident her diplomatic efforts will work and Europe will pass the "historic test" posed by the refugee crisis.
At least 43 police officers were killed on Monday when a bus in a convoy in northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge, falling about 20 meters in an accident that brought the sad state of the South American nation's roads into focus.
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