Now in aisle 3 at Lowe's: robots

The robots are coming.

Basketball more than a sport for women in Saudi Arabia

As the NBA season gets underway in the United States this week, a group of Saudi women and girls will be pursuing their own hoop dreams.

Pop stars climbing stairway to heaven earlier

It has long been said that pop stars live fast and die young, but a new Australian study has added scholarly credibility to the adage, finding that US musicians die up to 25 years earlier than the general population.

Hello Kitty at 40 gives adults license to play

As a Japanese schoolgirl in the 1970s, Kazumi Kaminaga had never seen anything as cute as Hello Kitty when she first laid eyes on the moon-faced, mouthless character in a shop.

Pakistan asks US to stop drone attacks

The Pakistani interior minister called upon a visiting US regional envoy to stop US drone strikes in the country's tribal region, local media reported on Wednesday.

New Zealanders to vote on flag change

New Zealand will hold a binding referendum in 2016 on changing the design of the national flag, with Prime Minister John Key hoping to drop the current design featuring Britain's Union Jack in favor of a silver fern.

Govt probes Indians with foreign cash

India's government handed over the names of more than 600 Indians with foreign bank accounts to the Supreme Court on Wednesday after public outrage over rampant tax evasion.

Palestinian artist captures Gaza's pain in clay sculptures

Amid the mountains of rubble littering Gaza after a deadly summer war, clay outlines emerge of men, women and children with a story to tell about fear, flight and destruction.

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Iraqi Kurds on the move to fight IS

A group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops arrived in Turkey early on Wednesday on their way to Syria to help their Syrian Kurdish brethren fight Islamic State extremists in the embattled city of Kobani.

UN votes 23rd time for US to lift embargo on Cuba

For the 23rd straight year, the United Nations voted on Tuesday in favor of the US lifting its embargo on Cuba, with Iran saying the ban was undeserved given Havana's help in fighting Ebola.

US rocket explodes on liftoff in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort

An unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from a commercial launchpad on Tuesday in the first accident since NASA turned to private operators to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.