RIYADH - Saudi Arabia has started issuing its first driver's licenses to women in decades, authorities said, just weeks before the historic lifting of the kingdom's ban on female motorists.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has dismissed suggestions from Italy that the European Central Bank might write off 250 billion euros ($296 billion) of the country's debt.
LONDON - The world should stand up to Washington's bullying behavior, Iran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday by state media in a letter to counterparts, as the top diplomat intensifies efforts to save a nuclear deal after a US exit.
KAFR NAHA, Syria - At an unlikely cat shelter in rebel-held northern Syria, Mohammed Alaa al-Jaleel gently holds a feline patient on her back as an ultrasound probe is rolled across her pregnant belly.
Authorities in California are thinking hard how to cut down on the amount of junk their residents throw away, as China's waste import ban is starting to have an impact on the state's economy and environmental goals.
CHICAGO - Some 70 percent of women with early-stage breast cancer and an intermediate risk of cancer recurrence can safely skip chemotherapy after their tumors have been removed, US researchers said on Sunday.
TOKYO - Sayako had been trying to conceive a second child for two years when her boss at a Japanese day care center suggested she stop because she had missed her "turn".
LONDON - The food-delivery firm Deliveroo thanked Benedict Cumberbatch on Saturday after a newspaper reported that the Sherlock star had fought off muggers who were attacking one of its cyclists.
NEW DELHI - First it was the cab revolution and now it is the turn of bike taxis that are changing the way people travel across India.
KONI GHIL, Uzbekistan - The passage of time seems to have slowed down at Zarif Mukhtarov's paper mill in a village not far from Uzbekistan's Silk Road city of Samarkand.
PORTLAND, Maine - A novelist who was twice rescued at sea has sailed 11,000 trouble-free kilometers and envisions a storybook ending to his journey.
High-level officials of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea started talks at the border village of Panmunjom on Friday, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
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