Australia should embrace a "cashless society" as it would save the nation billions of dollars and increase security, Australia's Assistant Minister to the Treasurer said on Wednesday. Alex Hawke said that just like checks, cash was becoming an unnecessary part of everyday transactions, and said Australia was already "well on the way" to becoming a cashless society.
A Japanese mother forced her teenage daughter to eat more than 30 of her pet goldfish as a punishment, police said, as the country grapples with a record number of child abuse cases.
Researchers say they've found an answer to the long-standing question of where Maine's Atlantic puffins spend the winter: far off New Jersey and New York.
One of India's leading media magnates has been formally charged with murder over the death of his stepdaughter, an investigating officer said on Wednesday, the latest development in a case gripping the country.
UN convoys delivering aid to thousands of besieged Syrians were due to set out on Wednesday, but hopes for lasting peace dimmed the day after Turkey called for a ground operation in its war-torn neighbor.
The United States had a plan for an extensive cyberattack on Iran in case diplomatic attempts to curtail its nuclear program failed, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing a forthcoming documentary and military and intelligence officials.
US President Barack Obama hammered home his belief on Tuesday that Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump would not be elected, knocking his reality show past and penchant for drawing media attention.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was placed under formal investigation on Tuesday over irregularities in his 2012 re-election campaign finances, the Paris Prosecutor said, dealing a serious blow to his hopes of running again in 2017.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron entered the final stretch of negotiations to help keep his country in the European Union on Wednesday ahead of a crunch summit, after the European Commission's chief insisted a so-called Brexit is not an option.
After two years of painstaking work, experts have completed the initial phase of a delicate restoration project at the Church of the Nativity, giving a much-needed face-lift to one of Christianity's holiest sites.
Walter Yacoboski scraped together nearly every penny he made as a cook in 1979 to begin buying a small collection of rare comic books for $10,000, hoping his boyhood passion could one day pay off as an investment.
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