The marathon Lima climate summit finally ended in the wee hours of Sunday morning, more than 32 hours after the scheduled finish deadline.
Drones are about to have a big impact on our lives, even if they will not be delivering our orders from Amazon anytime soon, experts say.
Indian police will deploy mini drones fitted with night vision cameras to patrol the streets of the national capital to make the city safer for women, local media reported on Friday.
When the Japanese pose for pictures, instead of saying "Cheese!" some say "Butter!" But these days, talk of butter is more likely to bring frowns, now that rationing is an issue in their country.
Commuters jostle to get on and off gleaming high-speed trains at Berlin's main railway station on a cold December morning, but one platform remains stubbornly empty. At last, a grimy engine draws in, pulling carriages that look like they saw their best days in the 1980s.
In remote bogland in Ireland, investigators search the ground with radar and a cadaver dog for a victim of the IRA murdered and secretly buried in 1972.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is signaling that retooling Japan's economy with painful structural reforms must take a back seat to reviving growth, even though he is poised to win a big referendum on his economic policies in an election on Sunday.
The former Korean Air Lines executive who delayed a flight because she was unhappy with the way she was served macadamia nuts apologized on Friday over the incident, which fueled outrage and ridicule in South Korea.
A former Vietnamese refugee shot dead on a Sydney street corner had laundered up to A$1 billion ($830 million) at Australian casinos as he cleaned up cash for criminal syndicates, reports said.
Rich and poor countries remain at loggerheads over what kind of climate action plans they should present in the run-up to a key summit in Paris next year.
Despite the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's recent freeing of three US captives, the Asian country's leadership appears no closer to reopening a dialogue with the outside, the chief US envoy said on Friday.
The chief of the US spy agency acknowledged on Thursday that some officers of the Central Intelligence Agency used brutal interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects, and there was no proof that useful information was acquired as a result.
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