IS attacks Kirkuk and power plant amid Mosul fight

Islamic State militants armed with assault rifles and explosives attacked targets in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk early on Friday in an assault that appeared aimed at diverting Iraqi security forces from a massive offensive against the IS-held city of Mosul.

ingluck vows to fight $1b fine over subsidy

Former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra said on Friday she would fight a government order demanding she personally pay nearly $1 billion in compensation for a rice policy prosecutors say was riddled with graft.

Magnitude-6.6 quake jolts western region

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 shook western Japan on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, adding that a tsunami warning was not issued.

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Post-Brexit, Britain's Jews look to return to Germany

Thomas Harding is doing what other descendants of Holocaust victims would find unimaginable: applying for a German passport.

Homegrown fashion bursts onto the scene

Like so much else in Cuba, shopping for clothes isn't easy.

Harvard museum to dust off old curiosities

As one of the world's oldest museums dedicated to anthropology turns 150, it's undergoing some big changes to showcase its significant role in developing the discipline.

Tourists help endangered turtles find freedom

A group of turtles scurried down a beach and glided into the sea, enjoying their newfound freedom after being cared for at an Indonesian conservation center.

Field grows into camp for victims of conflict

The cornfield is dotted with tents, mud-brick shelters and huts made of sticks and plastic sheets, home to around 900 Yemenis who fled the front-lines of their country's war. Buried in the field's soil are the bodies of loved ones they carried with them as they escaped.

Iraqi forces launch push to drive IS out of Mosul

Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by US-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway.

Daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay shot dead; 3 charged

Three men have been charged in connection with a shootout police say left the 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay dead.

Panel begins to study emperor's possible abdication

Experts on a government-commissioned panel held their first meeting on Monday to study how to accommodate Emperor Akihito's apparent abdication wish, in a country where he is not supposed to say anything political.