A professional surfer was mauled by a shark off the Australian east coast on Wednesday evening, officials said.
South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a strict anti-prostitution law that punishes individual women who trade sex for money.
A Japan-bound airplane returned to Hawaii because of a violent South Korean passenger who wanted to do yoga instead of sit in his seat, the FBI said.
France faced fresh protests over labor reforms on Thursday, just a day after the beleaguered government of President Francois Hollande was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over constitutional changes.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said it would not be difficult to agree on a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on Wednesday that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in office.
A flyover under construction in the bustling Indian city of Kolkata collapsed onto moving traffic below, killing at least 14 people with as many as 150 people feared trapped, police said.
A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the "unbearable stench" of burning bodies.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank accounts were used to purchase $15 million in luxury goods and pay out millions more to political figures ahead of 2013 elections, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Saad Ali is in good position to become Pakistan's first Formula 1 driver, a seemingly impossible target in a country with no race tracks and where all sport sponsorship money is poured into the national obsession - cricket.
Two men who allegedly forced a teenager to eat red-hot bongo chilies have been charged with assault in New Zealand.
Members of Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious National League for Democracy were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century.
Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved a plan for the embattled operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant to start freezing soil around its battered reactor buildings, in a move to reduce the massive amounts of radioactive water accumulating in the buildings.
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