A charming, yet revolutionary, television commercial has been garnering a great deal of attention on and off the airwaves and changing the way people in Bangladesh think about education, particularly in poorer, more rural areas. It shows students being taught by teachers hundreds of miles away in Dhaka, the capital, via the Internet.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday opened the door to the use of nuclear energy as Australia faces growing pressure to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions.
Negotiators from more than 190 countries gathered in Lima on Monday for the last main stop of the UN climate negotiations on the road to a planned global warming deal in Paris next year.
The sprawling power station that hums and coughs along this coast in Indonesia is labeled as a Japanese contribution to the global fight against climate change.
Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot a black teenager dead in Ferguson, Missouri, has resigned, but his resignation has not halted the unrest that followed a grand jury decision to not indict him.
Explosions and gunfire rocked the northern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Monday, in a suspected Boko Haram attack that targeted police, according to residents.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye hit out on Monday at "groundless" rumors circling her administration, some of which have touched on her personal life and triggered defamation suits against domestic and foreign media outlets.
US President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd last year in Cape Town, South Africa, that a $7 billion plan, Power Africa, would double electrical output on the world's poorest continent and bring "light where currently there is darkness".
Poland's Donald Tusk takes over as European Council president on Monday, the first person from Eastern Europe to take a top Brussels role, with a mandate to revive the economy.
Children playing at a Sydney beach on Sunday discovered the body of a baby buried under the sand, Australian investigators said, just a week after a newborn was found crying at the bottom of a roadside drain.
Australia's conservative federal government was on Sunday assessing the opposition Labor Party's comfortable victory in the Victoria state election, with some citing the national government's unpopular policies as a key factor.
Uruguayans voted on Sunday for a new president, with former leader Tabare Vazquez looking set to win comfortably, securing the ruling leftist coalition a third consecutive term and allowing it to roll out its pioneering marijuana law.
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