North Korea has launched its annual Arirang festival, featuring tens of thousands of performers in a highly-choreographed display of patriotism and support for the ruling Kim dynasty.
The top US general has informed Congress of options for military intervention in Syria, but stressed that the decision of whether to go to war was one for civilian leaders.
Clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's ousted president before dawn on Tuesday near the main campus of Cairo University left six dead, a senior medical official said.
Al Qaeda's branch in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for audacious raids on two high-security prisons on the outskirts of Baghdad this week that killed dozens and set free hundreds of inmates, including some of its followers.
Despite a global decline in the practice of female genital mutilation, 30 million girls are currently at risk of being cut. That is the conclusion of a new report by the United Nations' Children's Fund released on Monday.
An eight-month construction standstill at a North Korean site meant to launch bigger and better long-range rockets may signal Pyongyang is slowing or even stopping development of larger rockets, according to a new analysis of recent satellite imagery.
International media descended on London for the much anticipated arrival of the Duchess of Cambridge's royal offspring Monday. But amid the baby mania, some pointed out that in the time it took for Kate Middleton to give birth, women in refugee camps around the world were also becoming new moms, albeit with much less fanfare.
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