A Sydney court fined a Japanese company A$1 million ($709,000) on Wednesday for repeatedly killing Antarctic minke whales in an Australian Southern Ocean sanctuary.
A pair of new mobile apps hopes to help Palestinians navigate their way around snarled traffic at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, offering a high-tech response to an intractable problem: constant, burdensome and often seemingly random restrictions on movement.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday that a Malaysian man held for months by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines had been murdered, condemning what he called a "savage and barbaric" act.
A nighttime suicide bombing blamed on Boko Haram extremists killed 32 people and wounded 80 on Tuesday at a truck stop in northeastern Nigeria, an emergency official said.
Britain wants to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and lower their output from 2023, the government said on Wednesday, making it the first major economy to put a date on shutting down polluting coal plants to curb carbon emissions.
Two hundred Syrian refugees have entered South Korea, the country's intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
Bolivian President Evo Morales apologized to his health minister on Tuesday after suggesting she was a lesbian for talking with another woman as he gave a speech.
India will have 402 million Internet users by the end of this year, surpassing the United States, a report has claimed.
About 2.4 billion people around the world don't have access to decent sanitation, and more than 1 billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers, according to the United Nations.
The Japanese government took the local government in Okinawa to court on Tuesday, launching a legal battle in their long-standing dispute over the planned relocation of a US military air base on the southern island.
Floods in southern India and Sri Lanka have killed more than 70 people, officials and media reports said on Monday.
The Polynesian voyaging canoe that is guided solely by nature as it circles the globe has reached South Africa, the halfway point on its three-year journey and the most dangerous leg partly because of complicated ocean conditions.
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