Canada greeted 163 Syrian refugees late on Thursday, taking in the first of a planned 25,000 in a matter of months and promising them a better life as they flee their country's horrific war.
Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Chicago and staged "die-ins" on Thursday, calling for the resignation of embattled Mayor Rahm Emanuel a day after he emotionally apologized for the 2014 police shooting of a black teenager.
Donald Trump announced Thursday he was postponing his planned trip to Israel, just a day after the Jewish state's prime minister criticized the White House hopeful's inflammatory anti-Muslim proposals.
A monkey-eating eagle has been hatched in captivity in the Philippines, boosting the critically endangered giant bird's fight against extinction.
Some prefer to spend their leisure time immersed in music or on the sports field, but for a small group of tombstone tourists, Britain's graveyards are their playground.
A hacking group said on Thursday it has crashed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official website to protest Japan's plans to hunt whales.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday defiantly rejected calls to step down over a political funding scandal as the ruling party doubled down on its support for him in the face of an uncertain electoral outlook.
Welhite Naro proudly proffers his fried spiders and grilled crickets along with a somewhat less exotic dish of millet and squash - a small sample of the disappearing delicacies of India's remote northeast.
Australian road signs could soon be translated into Mandarin in a move to attract more Chinese tourists, and make it easier for the growing number of "self-drive" Chinese tourists to find their way around.
Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were charged on Thursday in Sydney over a terror plot targeting a government building, with authorities expressing alarm at the age of those being radicalized.
The September stampede during the hajj in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,411 pilgrims, a new Associated Press count shows, three times the number of deaths acknowledged by the kingdom three months later.
Tens of thousands of supporters jammed Argentina's most famous square on Wednesday night to say goodbye to President Cristina Fernandez, who lauded her government's achievements while blasting the incoming administration in the same withering tones she aimed at opponents throughout her eight years in office.
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