The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border city of Kobane overnight when Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish forces with mortars and car bombs, sources in the city said on Sunday.
More than 24 hours after Nigerian officials claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants to free more than 200 schoolgirls, relatives of the teenagers were still anxiously waiting for news about their return.
The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea troops briefly exchanged fire on Sunday inside the demilitarized zone that traverses the divided peninsula, the ROK's Defense Ministry said.
Multistory graveyards ease pressure on land in overcrowded urban areas
It was just a feather, but in the tropical paradise of the Seychelles, the discovery of parakeet plumage has put environmentalists in a flutter, with a foreign invading bird threatening the national parrot.
It's been 25 years since a massive quake rocked the Bay Area just before a World Series game, killing dozens, injuring thousands and causing billions of dollars' worth of damage as it buckled freeways, brought down a bridge and knocked buildings off their foundations.
Uruguay's landmark law legalizing the sales of marijuana has got off to a rocky start and might not survive upcoming elections to replace the man behind it, leftist President Jose Mujica.
Civilian groups dropping leaflets across border risk being fired at
The United Nations war crimes tribunal on Friday commenced the second phase of the trial of two ailing former senior leaders of Democratic Kampuchea, also known as Khmer Rouge, charges of genocide.
India on Friday successfully test fired its homemade, nuclear-capable subsonic cruise missile, Nirbhay, from a test range in the eastern state of Odisha, sources said.
Sixteen people have been confirmed dead, with 10 others seriously injured, after a ground-level ventilation grate at a South Korean outdoor theater collapsed, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
Fiji and Tuvalu signed a treaty on Friday, settling the maritime boundary issue between the two Pacific island neighbors.
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