World nations struck a landmark deal on Wednesday on using satellites to track flights, which could prove key to preventing a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March last year.
The rare and flawless "Blue Moon Diamond" sold for $48.4 million to a Hong Kong buyer on Wednesday, setting a world record for a gemstone at auction, Sotheby's said.
Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cooking stove with kindling, kerosene and sun-baked discs of cow dung.
Workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell and other chain restaurants protested in cities around the United States on Tuesday to push fast-food companies to pay them at least $15 an hour. The protesters also had a message for presidential candidates: Support the cause or lose their vote next year.
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, moving closer to an absolute majority in parliament on Wednesday, requested a meeting with the president and the powerful military chief to discuss national reconciliation.
Japan's first passenger jet made its first test flight on Wednesday, a landmark in a decadelong program to launch the plane aimed at competing with Brazilian and Canadian rivals in the global market for smaller aircraft.
Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol.
The political crisis in the Maldives deepened, with lawmakers voting to fire the country's chief public prosecutor, after he refused to press corruption charges against the country's sacked vice-president.
Syrian soldiers fought their way into an air base in northern Syria on Tuesday and freed military personnel inside, state television said, after a nearly two-year siege by Islamic State insurgents at the facility.
Four people were indicted on Tuesday in a massive hacking scheme by a "diversified criminal conglomerate" that compromised data from millions of customers of JPMorgan Chase and other firms, officials said.
An estimated 11 million children are at risk from hunger, disease and lack of water in eastern and southern Africa as a result of a strengthening El Nino, the UN children's fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday. El Nino is also causing droughts and floods in parts of Asia, the Pacific and Latin America, it added.
As tens of thousands of Russian tourists hastily leave Egypt's economically vital seaside resorts, a top Kremlin official issued an ominous warning on Tuesday: They're not coming back anytime soon.
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