Unprecedented rain in Japan unleashed heavy floods on Thursday that tore houses from their foundations, uprooted trees and forced more than 100,000 people from their homes.
Scientists say they've discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South Africa.
Turkish jets continued to bombard Kurdish militant positions in northern Iraq on Wednesday and Thursday, achieving "very effective" results, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday the European Union will offer better protection for refugees, but also will improve its frontier defenses and deport more illegal migrants.
After reigning through the decline of the British Empire and some of the worst scandals in royal history, Queen Elizabeth II was set to become Britain's longest-serving monarch on Wednesday (early Thursday, China time).
A camerawoman for a private television channel in Hungary was fired late on Tuesday after videos of her kicking and tripping migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the Internet.
Turkish forces crossed into northern Iraq to pursue Kurdish militants on Tuesday after the deadliest rebel attacks in years left dozens dead in a new escalation of the decades-long conflict.
It took three interviews and five days for Hillary Clinton to say "I'm sorry".
A key suspect in last month's deadly Bangkok blast handed the backpack that held the bomb over to a man in a yellow T-shirt later seen placing it at a shrine in the heart of the city, Thai police said on Wednesday.
A Guatemalan court indicted former president Otto Perez on corruption charges, days after he resigned over a customs fraud scandal that stoked outrage in the Central American country.
Australia has announced it will launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria within days and resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in the Middle East.
The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed on Tuesday to higher-level Red Cross talks about ways to regularly hold reunions for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
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