Several thousand people gathered in a square in the center of Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday as opposition and civil society leaders challenged moves by the military to step into the power vacuum left by the ousting of president Blaise Compaore.
At least 35 people were killed in an explosion near the Pakistani-Indian border on Sunday after a daily ceremony at the Wagah border crossing, an intelligence source told Reuters.
A Malaysian family has sued the government and its beleaguered national air carrier for negligence in the mysterious disappearance of Flight MH370, in what is believed to be the first lawsuit filed over the disaster.
Myanmar's political and ethnic leaders agreed on Friday to work together on reforms and peace talks ahead of a 2015 election.
India's president Pranab Mukherjee, members of Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress leaders paid a low-key tribute on Friday to Indira Gandhi on the 30th anniversary of the former premier's assassination.
Trick or treat! While youngsters dress up as ghosts and goblins and go door to door for Halloween, grown-ups across the United States are indulging in all things pumpkin spice.
Australian couples seeking surrogate mothers in India are being denied entry to the country following reports that a surrogate twin was left there by an Australian couple wanting just one child.
After weeks of Ebola panic, false alarms and quibbles over quarantine in the United States, health authorities are bracing for a new battle: flu season.
In between going on a bike ride and taking delivery of a pizza, nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend did chores and watched a movie while state officials struggled to reach a compromise in a standoff that has become the nation's most closely watched clash between personal freedom and fear of Ebola.
A survivalist accused of ambushing two Pennsylvania state troopers, killing one and seriously wounding the other, was captured on Thursday by US marshals in an abandoned airplane hangar, ending a seven-week man hunt that had rattled the nerves of are are sidents.
Britain's security services are set to clash with Parliament and the country's powerful press over revelations that police secretly used a controversial law to identify journalists' sources, triggering a wider debate about media freedom in the digital age.
Jihadi fighters from more than 80 countries have flocked to fight in Iraq and Syria on an "unprecedented scale", according to extracts from a UN report published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday.
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