Racially charged protests in Ferguson are fueling an exponential increase in gun sales among mainly white customers at one of the country's premier shooting ranges.
US celebrities called for a boycott on Friday - one of the country's busiest shopping days - to protest a grand jury's decision not to prosecute the police officer who fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown.
Greek archaeologist Katerina Peristeri dug in obscurity for years before unearthing a marble tomb from the time of Alexander the Great - a find that brought her instant fame.
Forty years ago, an old strip-mining site in the countryside near Houston, Texas, was transformed into a village modeled after Europe's 16th-century Renaissance, with Shakespearean performers and craftsman who didn't expect the event to see its second year.
A three-wheeled rickshaw lurched through New Delhi's commuter-clogged streets with a US scientist and several air pollution monitors in the back seat. Car horns blared. A scrappy scooter buzzed by belching black smoke from its tailpipe. One of the monitors spiked.
A teenage girl has died in northern India one week after a gang of men set her on fire as punishment for resisting their attempts to molest her, police said on Wednesday.
Regional collaboration in space technology must be enhanced to achieve sustainable development in South Asia, according to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation leaders.
Australian scientists said on Wednesday they have developed a "breakthrough treatment" to help soldiers severely wounded on the battlefield and hope to secure further research funding from the United States.
A South Korean appeals court on Wednesday ordered the government to compensate more than two dozen people, including a one-time presidential candidate, who were detained in the 1970s on fabricated subversion charges.
Some 2,200 US National Guard troops sent to the St. Louis area helped police stave off a second night of rioting and arson after a grand jury declined to indict a white policeman in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
US district judges have struck down as unconstitutional same-sex marriage bans in Arkansas and Mississippi, separately overturning measures that voters approved a decade ago in both socially conservative Southern states.
Romania's president-elect Klaus Iohannis has predicted that enough lawmakers could start abandoning Prime Minister Victor Ponta's ruling coalition in the coming weeks to bring down the government next year.
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