Opium cultivation skyrockets as eradication effort collapses

Afghanistan saw a 10 percent jump in opium cultivation this year because of bumper harvests, collapsing eradication efforts due to growing insecurity and declining international aid to combat drugs, the United Nations said on Sunday.

France starts clearing 'Jungle' refugee camp

Lines of migrants with their belongings in small bags walked to a registration center in the French port city of Calais on Monday, the first day of the mass evacuation and destruction of the filthy camp they called home.

Children making British clothes

Syrian refugee children have been working in factories in Turkey making clothes for British high street retailer Marks & Spencer and online store ASOS, an investigation by BBC Panorama found.

Park calls for future leaders to serve two terms

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday called for constitutional reforms that could allow future presidents to serve two terms - as she struggles with plunging popularity ratings and a widening corruption scandal.

Authorities recapture some of 172 escaped inmates

Police officers were searching cars and boats for escaped prisoners on Sunday after recapturing at least a dozen of the 172 inmates who overpowered guards and escaped from a lockup in central Haiti, the prison's director said.

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There are right ways in nurturing vegan babies

There's a right way and a wrong way to raise a baby on vegan food. Those who get it wrong, parents say, give the responsible ones a bad name.

Long-necked dino species discovered firstly in Australia

Scientists unveiled fossils on Thursday from a new species of giant, long-necked dinosaur unearthed in northeast Australia, speculating that its ancestors had trekked across Antarctica some 105 million years ago.

Previously unreleased music by Prince on the way

Prince's label on Friday announced it will release the first posthumous music from the pop icon including an entire second album to accompany Purple Rain.

Okinawa fashion: new style for tropical islands

Okinawa, the Japanese archipelago home to thousands of US troops and popular with scuba divers, is looking beyond its beach resorts and World War II battle sites to bag a spot in high fashion.

Inspired by 007, Day of Dead parade to be organized

The opening scene of the movie Spectre shows James Bond chasing a bad guy through a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City - except there has never been such a procession. But life is about to imitate art.

UN to begin evacuations from Aleppo

Syrian army opens eight corridors across front line for more than 250,000 civilians to leave