Ten years to the day after he was sworn in, disgraced former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak stood trial on Wednesday for corruption charges linked to a multibillion-dollar scandal that brought down his government, Reuters reported.
When Chinese tenor Lei Mingjie found he was on the shortlist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, he thought there had been a mistake.
The University of Wyoming, a small school in a sparsely populated Rocky Mountain state, has successfully employed an unusual marketing pitch to round up new students: cowboys.
CAIRO - Downtown Cairo, with its old European-designed buildings, is wrestling to preserve its cultural heritage as Egypt readies a new capital in the desert.
LA PAZ, Bolivia - The fate of a species may just rest on this love story.
CHICAGO - When young US families gather for dinner, half the time is spent preoccupied with electronic devices, toys and tasks that take them physically or mentally away from the table, a study posted on the website of the University of Illinois on Monday shows.
Professionals in the health and education sector, police service and other walks of life in the United Kingdom will be required to report warning signs help tackle the problem of youth violence.
New York has become the first city in the US to adopt congestion pricing on vehicles that enter its central downtown streets. Most of the anticipated $1 billion in revenue from the toll will be targeted at securing bonds to fix the city's troubled subway system.
A lawyer with little political experience has been named as Slovakia's first female president after winning the election on a second round of voting.
MUMBAI - From a multibillion-dollar education startup to wired-up mannequins, technology is helping to revolutionize the way Indian schoolchildren are learning - provided their parents can afford it.
Human remains and other artifacts taken from Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyderdahl on his legendary Kon Tiki expeditions are to be returned to their homeland after an agreement was signed between Norway and Chile.
LILLE, France - A lost sketch by Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens was sold at auction on Sunday for $1.46 million after being rediscovered in to an inheritance, French auctioneers said.
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