Wildfires are nothing new in California. But in the third year of a historic drought, the tinder-dry western US state is battling a near-record numbers of blazes.
Venezuela's famed models and aspiring beauty queens are struggling to doll themselves up as shortages turn eye shadow and breast implants into coveted luxuries.
Innovative Stone Age tools might have been developed by people in Eurasia and - contrary to widely held views - not just invented in Africa, a study published Thursday found.
In the wood-paneled rooms of Vienna's traditional coffee houses, tobacco-lovers can still light up pretty much as they please. But one of the last smokers' havens in Europe may soon have to kick the habit.
Diplomats say proposals would allow both sides to claim victory
Senior Ukrainian and Russian military officials met on Friday to mark out a proposed 30-kilometer "buffer zone" in eastern Ukraine from which government forces and separatists will remove weapons, Ukrainian military officials said.
It wasn't difficult for Barack Obama and Eric Holder to connect. Both were sons of immigrants. Both are Columbia Ivy Leaguers, basketball fans and prominent African-American political figures.
Health experts from 16 European countries beseeched their governments on Friday to massively scale up manpower and resources to fight West Africa's Ebola epidemic, which now threatens "the entire world".
The US government and technology experts warned on Thursday of a vulnerability in some computer-operating systems, including Apple's Mac OS, which could allow widespread and serious attacks by hackers.
Cameron's plea supported by all three main parties as Iraq requests help
The widening US airstrikes against Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq will cost more than the 2011 Libya conflict, and the price could rise to just under $1 billion a month, experts said on Thursday.
Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the country's prime minister said on Thursday, but US and French officials said they had no evidence to back up the claim.
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