US environmentalist and businessman Douglas Tompkins, the founder of outdoor clothing and equipment company The North Face, died on Tuesday during a kayaking trip in Chile, local health officials said. He was 72.
On a cold night 35 years ago, Mark David Chapman waited for John Lennon outside the New York City apartment building where the former Beatle lived with his wife, Yoko Ono, and his son.
The list of challenges confronting this blue-collar Southern California enclave was already long: a devastating municipal bankruptcy, high unemployment and crime - even a nagging yellow smog that often hung over the flat desert community.
A Polish man admitted on Tuesday to stealing a safe full of jewels, watches and cash worth about $625,000 from Chinese TV star Liu Tao, after breaking into her Copenhagen hotel room.
Japanese police arrested a South Korean man on Wednesday in connection with an explosion at the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo last month.
As a student graduating from computer college two years ago, Mohammed Qudih was dreading the "painful" unemployment in the Gaza Strip - a war-battered territory where nearly half the population is without work.
In the world of vocal groups, where singers are separated along bold gender lines with little room for gray, the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus stands out.
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Tuesday it was "assessing the credibility" of reports its strikes killed at least 26 civilians in a Syrian village on Monday.
A generation of Syrian children is facing "catastrophic" psychological damage, with 1 in 4 inside Syria at risk of developing a mental health disorder from witnessing traumatic events, a global children's charity said on Tuesday.
After years of heading abroad in droves to study, more young South Koreans are opting for education at home as expensive overseas degrees no longer provide an edge in a tough job market - and are even a liability.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he had done nothing wrong in receiving hundreds of millions of dollars into his personal bank accounts, as a senior party rival called on him to step aside over a festering funding scandal.
Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia on Tuesday denounced Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, dismissing the US Republican presidential front-runner as a bigot who promotes violence.
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