A Russian military pilot whose plane was shot down by Turkey and crashed in Syria arrived on Wednesday at an air base in Latakia province after being rescued by a Syrian army commando unit, Syrian and Russian officials said.
A haunting peal reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands reverberates across Pakistan's inhospitable Cholistan desert. The nation's first camel-mounted military bagpipe band marches, noses in the air.
The eight-legged water bear - a hardy, nearly microscopic animal resembling its mammal namesake - gets a huge chunk of its DNA from foreign organisms such as bacteria and plants, scientists said.
Ishtiaq Khalid is having a snow day - forced to stay home from his school due to bad weather. But unlike most 12-year-olds, he is not happy about it.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was in discussions with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea over the timing of his visit.
Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand have been lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in the supply chains of global food giant Nestle.
Recognizing the historic harm caused to "comfort women" in World War II could help provide a precedent to understand and address modern-day equivalent issues, a newly formed international coalition of parliamentarians against sexual slavery said on Monday.
Forty minutes east of South Africa's capital of Pretoria, amid the lowing of thousands of cows and the strong stink of dung, a small factory has taken on the challenge of turning manure into energy.
The Indian government assured top Bollywood actor Aamir Khan on Tuesday that he is safe in this country, a day after he raised concerns of growing intolerance.
Brussels will stay at the highest security threat level for another week over fears of an imminent terror attack, the Belgian government said, as the United States issued a worldwide travel alert for its citizens.
A bomb exploded outside the offices of a Greek business federation in central Athens early on Tuesday, smashing windows but causing no injuries, police officials said.
The black pearl of Tahiti is at the heart of French Polynesia's economy but is now highly vulnerable to climate change, and its fragile existence underlines - in a small but exquisite way - what is at stake in UN climate talks starting in Paris this month.
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