Pakistanis buried their dead and observed a day of nationwide mourning on Thursday following the brazen attack by Islamic militants who stormed a northwestern university the previous day, gunning down students and teachers and spreading terror before the four gunmen were slain by the military.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Moscow does not consider the conclusions of a British inquiry into the 2006 death of a former Russian spy to be impartial because it claims the result had been predetermined, and said the inquiry had been "politicized".
A US citizen has found out the hard way that a "world passport" isn't accepted in South Africa.
Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari said on Thursday he is investigating accusations that he and his aides took bribes from a construction company but that he was confident he had not done anything wrong.
Jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed left for the UK on Thursday following a stopover in Sri Lanka after the islands' government granted him prison leave for urgent surgery, his party said.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could face questions from Swedish prosecutors "in the coming days" at his hideout in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said on Wednesday.
"A sunburned country ... with a pitiless blue sky", so the famous poem goes, but where once Australia could rely on "steady, soaking rain", a trend of hotter and drier weather as the climate warms is making it more vulnerable to severe bush fires.
Kiyoshi Kimura's ear-to-ear grin is tough to miss in Japan - it's splashed across ubiquitous billboards advertising his nationwide sushi chain.
From an economic point of view, it all seemed to make sense.
Film director Ettore Scola, one of the last grand masters of Italian comedy, died on Tuesday at the age of 84, press reports said.
The Islamic State group has acknowledged the death of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John", who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages, in an article in its online English-language magazine Dabiq.
Marriage contract that the Emperor Napoleon and his wife Josephine signed as witnesses goes on sale next month for $20,000, a dealer in autographs and rare manuscripts said Tuesday.
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