Japanese automaker Nissan is teaming up with NASA to work on technology that can be used in self-driving cars.
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd said Fri-day it has been chasing a "poaching" ship for three weeks amid heavy ice flows in an attempt to stop the crew from illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean.
Former Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad swam 9 miles back to shore after falling off his boat while fishing off the South Florida coast.
Thailand's military-appointed legislature began impeachment hearings on Friday against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a move analysts say is aimed at ensuring the ousted leader stays out of politics for the foreseeable future.
A Japanese woman got more than a mouthful when she discovered fragments later identified as "dental material" in a McDonald's hamburger, marking the fast-food chain's latest food quality embarrassment.
A group of Nepalese returned home on Friday after becoming the first all-women team to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
Cow urine may soon be used to clean the floors of India's government offices in a country where bovines are sacred and their bodily waste considered therapeutic and even thirst-quenching.
Indonesian search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings in their efforts to find the black box flight recorders on Friday, an official said, 12 days after the plane went missing with 162 people on board.
In a stunning election result that was unthinkable weeks ago, Sri Lanka's long-time president acknowledged on Friday that he had been defeated by a onetime political ally, signaling the fall of a political dynasty and the rise of former Cabinet minister Maithripala Sirisena.
A deadly attack on a French satirical magazine that lampooned Islam seems certain to fuel rising anti-immigration movements around Europe and inflame a "culture war" about the place of religion and ethnic identity in society.
For years, the radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri delivered incendiary sermons at a London mosque, using words that US and UK authorities say helped inspire a generation of militants, including British would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Russia has passed a controversial law banning transvestites and transsexuals from driving, prompting sharp criticism from rights activists.
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