The United Arab Emirates has the world's tallest building, an artificial indoor ski slope and man-made islands shaped like the world. Dubai's fleet of police cars includes a $2.5 million Bugatti Veyron and a $500,000 Lamborghini Aventador.
Ten million people worldwide have no nationality, leaving them in a devastating legal limbo, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday, launching a campaign to eradicate statelessness within a decade.
British sailors used to swagger out of this great naval port at the zenith of the British Empire, manning the warships that protected merchant ships and kept the shipping lanes of the world open to the trade that made Great Britain rich and powerful.
Cuba has asked international companies to invest more than $8 billion in the island as it attempts to kick-start a centrally planned economy starved for cash and hamstrung by inefficiency.
Republicans appeared to be in the lead across the United States as the clock wound down to Tuesday's midterm elections.
Iran on Tuesday denied media reports that it has agreed to ship some of its enriched uranium to Russia as part of a possible deal with world powers on its controversial nuclear program.
Gunmen killed at least five people in Saudi Arabia's eastern region, the state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday, in what local residents said was an attack on Shiite Muslim worshippers marking one of their most important religious anniversaries.
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's leftist Syriza party, recently traveled to Frankfurt and Rome to meet European leaders.
The new head of Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency says US-based social media have become "command-and-control networks" for terrorists and criminals, and tech companies are in denial about their misuse.
Pyongyang and Seoul have never found dialogue easy, but academics from both sides currently meeting in Pyongyang are trying to steer things in the right direction by at least getting them to speak the same language.
A terminally ill woman who renewed a nationwide debate about physician-assisted suicide has ended her life with the lethal drugs available under Oregon's Death With Dignity Law. Brittany Maynard was 29.
A tiny store that sells hard candy, coffee and shampoo may seem a cruel consolation for Philippine typhoon widow Jennifer Pulga, but it keeps her with her children, and for that she is deeply grateful.
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