Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest Mariana Trench dive

NEW YORK - On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor and explorer found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: Trash.

Putin: Strategic partnership with Beijing is a priority

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that developing a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination with China is the priority of his country's external relations.

EU calls for calm, warns of US-Iran conflict

European leaders on Monday urged the United States to exercise maximum restraint toward Iran and avoid military confrontation as tensions in the Persian Gulf region continue to escalate in the last days.

German police puzzle over crossbow deaths

German medical examiners performed autopsies on Tuesday on five bodies after police probing the deaths in a remote hotel of a 53-year-old man and two black-clad women connected those killings to two others 650 kilometers away.

Couple awarded $2b in Monsanto cancer case

A California jury on Monday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co to pay more than $2 billion to a couple claiming that the company's popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers, The Associated Press reported.

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Riyadh says two oil tankers attacked

Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two of its oil tankers were sabotaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in attacks that caused "significant damage" to the vessels, one of them as it was en route to pick up Saudi oil to take to the United States, The Associated Press reported.

UN team verifies Houthi pullback from Hodeida

The United Nations monitoring team in Yemen on Sunday verified the Houthis have withdrawn from three ports in western Red Sea Hodeida Province, Xinhua News Agency reported.

As cyclone death toll rises, anger grows

NEW DELHI - The death toll from a major cyclone that hit eastern India and Bangladesh in early May rose to 77 on Monday, as anger grew among millions of survivors.

Surplus South Korean graduates look to Japan, US

SEOUL - Cho Min-kyong boasts an engineering degree from one of South Korea's top universities, a school design award and a near-perfect score in her English proficiency test.

Pakistan secures deal for $6b IMF bailout

Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, have reached an agreement, securing a $6 billion bailout for the South Asian country, officials said on Sunday, following months of painstaking negotiations between the two sides, Agence France-Presse reported.

Sweden reopens Assange rape probe

Swedish prosecutors have reopened an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wiki-Leaks co-founder Julian Assange, who is currently being held in Belmarsh jail in London.