French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for research on market power and regulation that has helped policymakers understand how to deal with industries dominated by a few companies.
Turkey agreed to let Washington use its air bases for the campaign against Islamic State jihadists as Kurdish fighters kept up their battle on Monday to defend the flashpoint city of Kobane.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea rebutted the US explanation for suspending recovery of US soldiers' remains in the country, saying on Monday that the suspension was due to the US "brigandish hostile policy".
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on both Israel and Palestine to be bold and resume the Middle East peace process, which has been stalled for many months.
Bolivian President Evo Morales declared victory on Sunday, as exit polls showed him romping to a third term with more than 60 percent of the vote, giving him a strong mandate to expand his leftist reforms.
Evo Morales grew up in poverty on Bolivia's high plains and was a llama herder, musician, soccer player and coca grower before rising to become the country's first indigenous president.
Disgraced South African track star Oscar Pistorius arrived at the Pretoria High Court on Monday for a sentencing hearing that will determine whether he serves jail time for the negligent killing of his girlfriend, or walks out a free man.
Three minibuses traveling in the southern Egyptian province of Aswan collided on Monday, killing 30 people and injuring 15 others, a senior security official said. Aswan's provincial police chief, Mohammed Mustafa, said the accident took place on a road that runs along the west bank of the Nile near the historic town of Edfu.
Manila's creaking train network means a miserable three-hour commute to work for salesman Gerard Galang - just one example of major infrastructure woes that analysts say threaten to cool the Philippines' red-hot economy.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi said he believes child labor can be eradicated in his lifetime, calling for everyone in the world to "take a stand" against the practice.
US fugitive Edward Snowden, who was granted asylum by Moscow after revealing the extent of US global surveillance, has been reunited with his girlfriend in Russia, his lawyer said on Saturday.
Embrace your inner snob. Wear red with pink. Eat oysters at home and go to bed before midnight on New Year's Eve. That's just some of the advice meted out by four Frenchwomen in a new book on "how to be Parisian".
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