To protect swimmers and surfers, Western Australia wants to bait and destroy sharks, including the iconic great white, but conservationists are outraged
American Released From Abu Dhabi Prison After Video Scandal
“I was tried in a textbook kangaroo court,” he tells reporters
Renowned Lebanese Library Torched
Two-thirds of its 80,000 books and documents destroyed
Pakistani Boy Dies While Saving School From Suicide Bomber
Hundreds of students gathered for assembly saved from harm because of boy’s actions
Death of Former Beauty Queen Prompts Soul-Searching, Anger in Venezuela
The high-profile murder of a former Miss Venezuela and her husband in a roadside attack has shocked the nation and stoked anger in a country with one of the world’s worst murder rates
Britney and Miley Are Too Sexy for Daytime TV — in France
Definitely not a party in France…
Crisis in South Sudan: The World’s Youngest Nation Struggles to Survive
Nearly a month after fighting erupted in the capital, Juba, pushing nearly 200,000 people from their homes, the political power struggle between loyalists of President Salva Kiir and his ex-deputy Riek Machar rests on a knife’s …
U.S. Senate Committee Hears Testimony on South Sudan Crisis
Officials call for international community to continue to provide aid and halt human rights abuses
Indian Diplomat Indicted in the U.S., But Set to Leave Country
At the center of a testy diplomatic incident, Devyani Khobragade was set to leave the U.S. despite being indicted on charges in New York
Meet the Nazi Hunter: Israel’s Efraim Zuroff Helps German Court Case
Efraim Zuroff never aspired to become the world’s most prominent Nazi hunter. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1960s, his dream was to be the first Orthodox Jew to play basketball in the NBA. That would have been a career, he says, …
Fidel Castro Makes First Public Appearance in Nine Months
The former leader of Cuba attends the opening of an art studio
Germany to Help Destroy Syria’s Chemical Weapons
Government accepts request from U.N. and OPCW
France Approves First Cannabis-Based Drug
French multiple sclerosis patients will be able to use Sativex, an oral spray