A new breast cancer drug from Roche has shown "unprecedented" survival benefits in a clinical trial, boosting prospects for its widespread use in women with an aggressive form of the disease.
The first deaths were confirmed on Sunday among more than 30 hikers feared killed near the peak of a Japanese volcano that erupted without warning, spewing ash, rocks and steam.
Afghanistan is due to hold its presidential inauguration on Monday, with Ashraf Ghani, a noted academic, taking power as NATO troops end their 13-year intervention that failed to stop an ongoing Taliban insurgency.
As India celebrated becoming the first Asian nation to reach Mars, S.M. Vaidya, head of business at conglomerate Godrej's aerospace division - which made the spacecraft's engine and thruster components - sounded surprisingly downbeat.
The difficult process of disarming Philippine Muslim rebels after a decadeslong insurgency has started, negotiators said on Sunday, with the decommissioning of a first batch of firearms expected before year-end.
The al-Nusra Front, al-Qaida's Syrian offshoot, has threatened reprisals against nations participating in airstrikes against the Islamic State group, denouncing them as "a war against Islam".
Moscow called for the resetting of relations with Washington on Sunday, saying the situation in Ukraine that led to sanctions against Russia was improving thanks to Russian peace initiatives.
World leaders gathered on Saturday for the annual ministerial meeting of the UN General Assembly to address the state of their countries and the world. Here are highlights of some of the speakers:
Two police officers were shot at and one was wounded late on Saturday near the flashpoint city of Ferguson, Missouri, where the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager triggered race riots and national outrage.
US President Barack Obama said the widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, is corroding America, not just its black communities, and that the wariness flows from significant racial disparities in the administration of justice.
A news agency in Iran reported that the Islamic republic has built a new surface-to-surface cruise missile capable of being launched from an airplane.
Stiletto heels, brighter colors more common in DPRK capital
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