The Islamic State (IS) militants stoned to death two young men in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on charges of having "unlawful" sexual intercourse with other males, a monitoring group reported Tuesday.
Feng Jianlin has never lost hope that one day he will be reunited with his daughter, who has been missing for six years.
New Zealand researchers said Wednesday they have identified a previously unknown whale group that lived 27 million to 25 million years ago.
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins on Wednesday confirmed a second Frenchman was among Islamic State (IS) insurgents that appeared on a decapitation video released on Sunday.
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto Wednesday pledged to publicly disclose his personal assets, according to media reports.
Most areas of the United Sates have been gripped by severe wintry weather characterized by heavy snowfall and drastic temperature drops since the weekend, with a dozen of states recording temperatures falling below freezing.
The strain of bird flu found at a British farm in north England has been identified as H5N8, the same as the one recently identified in the Netherlands and Germany, according to the environment department.
A Chinese rumormonger was sentenced to four years in prison for illegal business practices on Tuesday in Beijing.
A Singapore taxi operator said on Monday that it has scrapped its initial public offering after finding out that it faced additional insurance charges.
A cargo plane carrying the bodies of 74 South Africans, who were killed when a Nigerian church building collapsed in September, has arrived home.
A bomb containing around 1 kg of explosive was neutralized by police outside a branch of Deutsche Bank in Italy's Naples on Monday, local reports said.
As world leaders depart Brisbane following a successful but sometimes tense G20 summit, one unresolved issue will be accompanying them home like an unwanted piece of excess baggage.
Islaimic State (IS) militant group announced in a video posted online on Sunday that they had beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig.
An international manhunt for a convicted New Zealand killer who escaped custody and fled to South America has ended with the man's capture in Brazil, New Zealand Police said Thursday.
Russia on Tuesday signed an agreement with Iran for helping the latter build two new nuclear reactors in the Islamic republic, local media reports said.
The captain of the South Korean sunken ferry was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years in prison for leaving more than 300 people dead by dismissing his duty of saving passengers.
A group of 15 armed men burst into a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before dawn and freed their injured ringleader, local media reported Monday.
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