LONDON - London Gatwick Airport - Britain's second busiest - reopened on Friday after a drone saboteur wrought travel chaos for hundreds of thousands of Christmas travelers by flying drones overhead, playing cat-and-mouse with police snipers and the army.
Former Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina continued to lead his rival Marc Ravalomanana as the counting of ballots entered its second day in Madagascar.
The annual news conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sent strong signals to the United States on their future relations, but also showed confidence in Russia's economic prospects, experts said.
RIO DE JANEIRO - From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio's rundown city center.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA's new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet's dusty red surface, just a few weeks after its arrival.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Thursday that its commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was bound up with a "complete removal of US nuclear threats".
SEOUL - Hundreds of Republic of Korea citizens have sued the government for compensation over their forced labor at Japanese firms during World War II, representatives said on Thursday, in a fresh twist to one of several historical disputes between the two sides.
UNITED NATIONS - Chief of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, also known as UNODC, said on Wednesday that his agency is registering new, alarming trends in drug trafficking in West and Central Africa.
The UK Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has given the strongest support yet from inside Cabinet for a second referendum, saying it was "plausible" if Parliament rejects British Prime Minister Theresa May's deal with the EU in January.
TOKYO - Japan is considering leaving the International Whaling Commission, also known as the IWC, to resume commercial hunts after unsuccessfully campaigning for decades to gain support for the cause.
Russian leader pushes economic growth at annual press conference
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