At least two people were killed and 16 more injured in overnight shelling by Indian and Pakistani forces along the line of control between the two countries in Kashmir, Indian and Pakistani officials said on Thursday.
Troops trading heavy fire between Pakistan and India-controlled Kashmir have plunged civilians on both sides into grief with 18 villagers killed and dozens wounded this week, prompting many to question how two nations committed to a 2003 cease-fire could be targeting civilians while trading blame about who started shooting first.
One person was killed and 13 others wounded in a grenade explosion in front of an entertainment outlet in Kuala Lumpur early on Thursday, with four Chinese women among the victims.
As the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea prepares to mark its 69th anniversary on Friday, the world will be watching to see if DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un will make his first public appearance in more than a month.
An Australian judge said on Thursday that a couple rejected one of the twin infants born to an Indian surrogate mother because of the baby's gender. They took home the twin sibling.
Patrick Modiano of France, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
The United States and Canada announced stepped-up airport screening measures on Wednesday to look for passengers carrying Ebola, as the deadly virus killed a man in Texas and the worldwide toll neared 3,900.
The US-led coalition pounded positions held by Islamic State militants in the Syrian border city of Kobane on Thursday in some of the most intensive strikes in the air campaign so far, a Kurdish official and an activist group said.
Yemeni officials say two suicide bombings - one in Sanaa, the other in the country's south - killed at least 67 people.
These are treasures that Israel doesn't allow anyone to check out of its national library.
US residents are living longer than ever before, according to a new government report filled mostly with good news. Life expectancy inched up again, and death rates fell.
Belgium is the latest European country to mandate raising the age of retirement.
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