BEIRUT, Lebanon - An Islamic State suicide bomber targeted a joint convoy of the United States and allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria on Monday, marking the second attack against US troops in less than a week and further highlighting the dangers surrounding US plans to withdraw forces after a declaration that the extremist group had been defeated.
Japan is considering applying domestic privacy protection rules on foreign tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook, Japanese media reported.
When Dutch professional wildlife photographer Marsel van Oosten's picture of two golden snub-nosed monkeys resting on an outcrop of rock in the Qinling Mountains won the most recent Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, he became the latest in a long list of shutterbugs to win praise for images taken in China.
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government has put eradicating fuel theft on the top of its agenda in the wake of an oil pipeline explosion that has killed at least 85 people and injured more than 80 others.
The world's oldest living man, 113-year-old Masazo Nonaka of Japan, died at his home - a hot springs inn - on Sunday, local media reported.
WASHINGTON - An unusual set of celestial circumstances came together on Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday for skywatchers in Europe, Africa and the Americas, where the moon was fully obscured before lighting up again with a faint red glow.
DAVOS, Switzerland - The world's 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, Oxfam said on Monday, urging governments to hike taxes on the wealthy to fight soaring inequality.
WASHINGTON - Thousands of women marched on Saturday in Washington and across the United States to convey a now-annual message opposing US President Donald Trump and supporting women's rights, but internal divisions appeared to steal some energy from the rallies.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Every evening, the night watchman clambers to the top of the Lausanne cathedral bell tower and gets to work: he shouts out the time each hour, keeping a six-century-old tradition alive.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon - Chinese President Xi Jinping's special representative Yang Jiechi and Cameroonian President Paul Biya agreed on Friday to further boost bilateral cooperation.
PULLACH IM ISARTAL, Germany - Harold Voit takes out his wallet, extracts a wad of 50-euro bills and gazes at it calmly as the cash goes up in flames.
DETROIT, Michigan - A plane carrying 129 people skidded off a slick Chicago runway on Saturday and a plow driver died when his truck rolled over outside Kansas City following a winter storm that covered many parts of the Midwest in snow and ice.
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