The US Army Corps of Engineers said on Sunday it turned down a permit for a controversial pipeline project running through North Dakota, in a victory for Native Americans and climate activists who have protested against the project for months.
Controversial movie Last Tango in Paris is making headlines again 44 years after it was released.
Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake United States embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade issued illegally obtained authentic visas, the US State Department said.
The festive spirit has started early at a church in England after the building was crammed with 1,378 Christmas trees.
As soon as the bombs exploded outside his house in the Iraqi town of Falluja, Rachid Jassam rushed onto the street to rescue the injured.
The remains of the Cuban revolutionary leader and former president Fidel Castro were buried on Sunday morning at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba. At 9:45 am, the public was allowed to briefly visit his tomb, guarded by a dozen soldiers.
Popular New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced his shock resignation on Monday, saying he was never a career politician and it was the right time to go after eight years in the job.
South Korea's embattled President Park Geun-hye faces a pivotal week, with an effort to impeach her gaining support from within her own party and the heads of the country's biggest business groups set to give testimony to a parliamentary committee.
A pre-dawn inferno at a four-star hotel in Karachi killed 11 people on Monday and wounded 75, police said, with desperate guests jumping from windows and scrambling down knotted bedsheets to escape.
In the end, Matteo Renzi's fall was even quicker than his remarkably rapid rise to the summit of Italian politics.
The euro tumbled in early Asian trade on Monday after Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said he would resign after conceding defeat in a referendum over his plan to reform the Constitution.
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