TOKYO - The mayor of Japan's second city of Osaka said on Friday he would end sister-city relations with San Francisco after the US city decided to accept a donated memorial to wartime sex slaves.
CAIRO - At least 235 people were killed when gunmen set off a bomb and opened fire at a mosque in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula on Friday, state television reported.
BOSTON - The US Justice Department is investigating complaints that Harvard University intentionally limits the number of Asian-American students it admits, according to a report on Tuesday.
An unemployed graduate is suing Oxford University because he did not get a first-class degree, which he claims hindered his chances of a lucrative legal career.
BERLIN - The German energy provider EWE and scientists from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena said on Thursday that they have made progress in their plans to build the world's most powerful battery.
NEW DELHI - An all-female police motorbike squad is set to take to Delhi's streets next month, a senior police official said, as reports of violence against women rise in the Indian capital.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - The world's nights are getting alarmingly brighter, which is bad news for all sorts of creatures, humans included.
MOSCOW - A boatload of tourists in the Far Eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realization that some 200 polar bears were roaming on the mountain slope.
NEW YORK - A self-taught rocket scientist in the United States will launch himself into the sky with a homemade rocket in a bid to prove the Earth is flat.
SEOUL - An annual hush descended upon South Korea on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of students sat the crucial national college entrance exam, delayed for a week by a rare earthquake.
SYDNEY - Visitors to an Australian tourist hotspot have been advised to use umbrellas to protect themselves against dingo attacks, according to research.
WAKISO, Uganda - When war broke out in neighboring South Sudan in 2013, Gabriel Omiat became jobless and had to return to Uganda, with nothing much left.
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