Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is signaling that retooling Japan's economy with painful structural reforms must take a back seat to reviving growth, even though he is poised to win a big referendum on his economic policies in an election on Sunday.
The former Korean Air Lines executive who delayed a flight because she was unhappy with the way she was served macadamia nuts apologized on Friday over the incident, which fueled outrage and ridicule in South Korea.
A former Vietnamese refugee shot dead on a Sydney street corner had laundered up to A$1 billion ($830 million) at Australian casinos as he cleaned up cash for criminal syndicates, reports said.
Rich and poor countries remain at loggerheads over what kind of climate action plans they should present in the run-up to a key summit in Paris next year.
Despite the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's recent freeing of three US captives, the Asian country's leadership appears no closer to reopening a dialogue with the outside, the chief US envoy said on Friday.
The chief of the US spy agency acknowledged on Thursday that some officers of the Central Intelligence Agency used brutal interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects, and there was no proof that useful information was acquired as a result.
A major storm pummeled California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and high winds on Thursday, killing one man, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes, disrupting flights and prompting schools to close.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Friday that a "real" cease-fire was in place in Ukraine, following the first 24 hours in seven months without a military casualty, although he admitted the truce was fragile.
Brazilian federal prosecutors announced on Thursday they have formally charged 36 people linked to a corruption and money-laundering scheme at state oil and gas giant Petrobras.
For more than two years, a US agency secretly infiltrated Cuba's underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The USAID hip-hop program was inspired by Serbian student protest concerts that helped oust former president Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. Serbians involved in that effort guided the Cuban hip-hop program.
Lebanon's southern city of Sidon is best known for its Crusader castle and ancient market, but a more modern landmark has marred its Mediterranean shoreline for decades - a towering "mountain" of trash.
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