Ka Lar Nar caught malaria for the sixth time when he was working on his small farm in the jungle of southeastern Myanmar, but this time it was a lot harder to get rid of it.
Sweden asked the United Nations on Monday to reopen an inquiry into the mysterious death of former UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold more than 50 years ago, citing new evidence and a need to close "an open wound."
Australians laid mounds of flowers at the site where two of 17 hostages were killed on Tuesday when police stormed into a cafe to rescue them from a gunman - a self-styled cleric described by Australia's prime minister as a deeply disturbed person carrying out a "sick fantasy".
A Foreign Ministry spokesman on Tuesday expressed the country's condolences for the two hostages killed in the Sydney cafe siege.
The three teenage girls from the US state of Colorado swapped Twitter messages about marriage and religion with recruiters for the Islamic State group, then set out for Syria with passports and thousands of dollars in stolen cash. Authorities intercepted them in Germany, then returned them to their families without criminal charges.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro slammed the US government on Monday over sanctions against senior officials of his administration for alleged violations of human rights.
Iran said on Tuesday bilateral nuclear talks with the United States were proceeding in a good atmosphere despite lingering gaps over key issues such as Teheran's uranium enrichment capacity and how fast economic sanctions should be lifted.
Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour told member states of the International Criminal Court in a first address on Monday that Palestine plans to join the ICC "at an appropriate time".
A teenage survivor of Tuesday's Taliban attack on a Pakistani school described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents hunting down students to kill.
I am heartbroken by this senseless and cold-blooded act of terror in Peshawar that is unfolding before us. Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this."
Bryony Nierop-Reading has what she calls a million-dollar view from her cliff top property in east England, looking out over North Sea swells beyond a sandy beach where gulls wheel overhead.
A pile of sand about eight times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza is shaping up as a cut-rate model for protecting coasts from rising seas.
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