As government airstrikes and incoming rebel mortar fire rattle buildings in the distance, shoppers at a beauty exhibition in Damascus try not to notice.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was holding talks with Indian leaders on Thursday to strengthen trade and energy cooperation with Asia's third-largest economy, as Western sanctions threaten to push his country's economy to the brink of a recession.
The leader of Crimea, the Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia, arrived for talks in New Delhi on Thursday as Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Indian counterpart.
The Australian government failed in its duty to protect asylum seekers at a camp in Papua New Guinea where a riot left one dead and 69 injured, according to a parliamentary report released on Thursday.
An Australian politician came out as the country's first openly gay government leader on Thursday after he was appointed chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory.
Israeli and Palestinian officials issued conflicting accounts on Thursday over the results of an autopsy of a Palestinian minister who died after being shoved and grabbed by the neck by an Israeli border policeman at a West Bank protest on Wednesday.
A friend of Jimmy Savile, the late British television presenter who was unmasked after his death in 2011 as one of Britain's worst sex offenders, has been jailed for 25 years for a string of underage sex crimes dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. Ray Teret was convicted earlier this month at Manchester Crown Court of seven charges of rape and 11 of sexual assault on 11 victims.
A damning report into the United States' brutal treatment of "war on terror" detainees triggered worldwide condemnation and calls for CIA agents and senior officials to face justice.
Former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks heckled a senior Australian minister, calling him a "coward" while accusing the former government of having full knowledge of his alleged torture.
Environment ministers from around the world faced mounting time pressure on Thursday to shape a blueprint for a global pact on climate change with groundbreaking carbon curbs at its core.
Thousands of people with colorful costumes and banners marched in central Lima on Wednesday to call for leaders to ensure a global shift to 100 percent clean energy by 2050.
"Shirtfront" has been named Australia's 2014 word of the year, the Australian National University announced on Wednesday on behalf of the Australian National Dictionary Center.
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