Payam Feili fled his native Iran last year because of the persecution he faced over his sexuality. Now, the gay poet has made a yearslong dream come true - he is visiting Israel, Iran's archenemy and a country known for its tolerance toward gays.
Scientists have invented a machine that imitates the way the human brain learns information, a step forward for artificial intelligence, researchers reported on Thursday.
Talks on a global accord to combat climate change are taking longer than planned to overcome disputes and will last an extra day into Saturday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Friday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea held high-level talks on Friday at a DPRK border town, a small step meant to improve ties battered by a military standoff in August and decades of acrimony and bloodshed.
A week-old investigation into the shooting rampage that left 14 people dead at a holiday party in southern California turned on Thursday to a small lake near the scene of the massacre, where divers searched for evidence.
Canada greeted 163 Syrian refugees late on Thursday, taking in the first of a planned 25,000 in a matter of months and promising them a better life as they flee their country's horrific war.
Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Chicago and staged "die-ins" on Thursday, calling for the resignation of embattled Mayor Rahm Emanuel a day after he emotionally apologized for the 2014 police shooting of a black teenager.
Donald Trump announced Thursday he was postponing his planned trip to Israel, just a day after the Jewish state's prime minister criticized the White House hopeful's inflammatory anti-Muslim proposals.
A monkey-eating eagle has been hatched in captivity in the Philippines, boosting the critically endangered giant bird's fight against extinction.
Some prefer to spend their leisure time immersed in music or on the sports field, but for a small group of tombstone tourists, Britain's graveyards are their playground.
A hacking group said on Thursday it has crashed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official website to protest Japan's plans to hunt whales.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday defiantly rejected calls to step down over a political funding scandal as the ruling party doubled down on its support for him in the face of an uncertain electoral outlook.
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