Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, calling for dramatic action against pollution that is blamed for more than 6 million deaths a year.
Australia watered down plans for a "backpacker tax" on foreigners on working holidays on Tuesday, after an outcry from farmers and tourism operators.
Every time he hears a loud noise, Imed al-Firi hides his healthy leg under a cushion - a reflex he developed after the summer of 2014, when Israeli tank fire struck his Gaza home and robbed him of his right leg.
A district of the Romanian capital on Monday celebrated hundreds of couples who have been married for at least half a century by handing out cash awards and inviting them to a joint lunch.
Canada's parks department on Monday confirmed the discovery of a British exploration ship that vanished during a storied Arctic expedition in 1846.
After a half-century of combat that spilled blood across this South American nation, Colombians have embarked on a new, but difficult path to settle their political differences with the signing of a historic peace accord between the government and leftist rebels.
Brazilian police on Monday arrested Antonio Palocci, a powerful former finance minister and presidential chief of staff in recent Workers Party governments, as a sweeping anti-corruption probe hit even harder at the left-leaning party, known by its acronym PT.
Saudi Arabia on Monday cut the salaries of cabinet ministers by 20 percent and froze the wages of lower-ranking civil servants in an intensified austerity drive to cope with lower oil revenues.
A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said.
Poll and experts suggest she is winner of first presidential debate - a battle of endurance
Few US citizens are hopeful about either a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton presidency, even as the US presidential race is heating up now, Gallup found in a poll released on Monday.
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