The University of California at Berkeley has suspended a course amid accusations it shared anti-Semitic viewpoints and was designed to indoctrinate students against Israel.
Russia's Central Bank has cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 10 percent as it aims to shore up the economy amid signs of a taming in inflationary pressures.
The University of Florida announced Thursday that it has been awarded a U.S. grant of roughly $1.7 million to research the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Haiti.
Authorities in Thailand seeking to curb the growing number of Zika cases say they will criminally charge homeowners who fail to remove mosquito breeding grounds on their property.
In the decade after Belgium legalized doctor-assisted death, the number of patients using it to end their lives rose nearly eight-fold, according to records of the national euthanasia control committee.
Three mentally disabled brothers have been found dead in a western Pennsylvania house fire that appears to have been fueled by a flammable liquid in several spots.
An Byeong-hun of South Korea and Scott Jamieson of Scotland moved within one shot of the lead as the weather-delayed first round of the Italian Open was completed on Friday.