Couples held over Paris car with gas canisters

French police investigating a car containing six gas canisters discovered near the Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris detained a second couple overnight.

Woman charged over kicking migrant

A Hungarian television camerawoman who made headlines last September after appearing to trip and kick migrants who were fleeing police has been indicted, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Russia intercepts US Navy spy plane

A Russian fighter jet flew within 10 feet (3 meters) of a US Navy surveillance aircraft, in what US officials called an unsafe intercept over the Black Sea, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

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Two Nobel judges to step down over ethics scandal

Two members of the assembly that awards the Nobel Prize for medicine are to quit for failing to heed warnings about a major ethics scandal, the panel said on Tuesday.

First face transplant recipient dies at age 49

Isabelle Dinoire, a Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant, has died 11 years after the surgery that set the stage for dozens of other transplants worldwide. She was 49.

Vietnam's 'Silicon Valley' sparks startup boom

Recent Vietnamese graduate looking for an English language teacher? There's an app for that. Or hunting the best bowl of pho in your Hanoi neighborhood? There's now an app for that, too.

Anti-drugs chief calls for tougher Philippine-style fight

Inspired by the Philippines "war on drugs", Indonesia's anti-narcotics chief plans to aggressively ramp up the country's fight against drugs by bolstering its police force with more personnel and heavy weaponry.

US Coast Guard's last lighthouse keeper looks to 300-year milestone

A singular lighthouse and its unique keeper are celebrating a milestone.

Conservation groups trample on native people

Some of the world's leading conservation groups are violating the rights of indigenous people by backing projects that oust them from their ancestral homes in the name of environmental preservation, a top UN expert said this week.

Teheran-Riyadh war of words heats up as Iranians miss pilgrimage

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Saudi authorities of "bigoted extremism" late on Tuesday in an increasingly bitter war of words over Iran's exclusion from this year's hajj pilgrimage.

50 million children 'uprooted' worldwide

Almost 50 million children around the world are "uprooted", forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children's program said on Wednesday.