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A clampdown on Syrian refugees entering Jordan has left 75,000 people stranded in the desert in a no man's land between the countries, cut off from aid for months, Amnesty International says.

Domingos Montagner, one of Brazil's most-loved television stars, drowned Thursday on the set of popular soap opera "Velho Chico."

The Philippines top diplomat has told a forum in Washington that his country "cannot forever be the little brown brothers of America."

Two-hundred bullets fired into an official. A corpse-eating crocodile. A billionaire killed in a lover's tiff.

As Syria's ceasefire largely holds, residents trapped in Aleppo eagerly await crucial aid supplies after months cut off from the rest of the world.

Brazilian prosecutors on Wednesday presented charges of corruption against ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his wife, Marisa Leticia da Silva, according to state-run news agency Agencia Brasil.

The tenuous calm brought to Syria by a US and Russia ceasefire seems to be holding after an agreement by both parties to extend the deal for another 48 hours.

There once was a conservative candidate who promised a new era of economic growth. He promised to get tougher on a neighboring country he viewed as hostile, and he was widely feared by Muslims. He vowed to run the country like a company: efficiently and pro-business.

In Syria a 10-year-old girl was almost missed, counted for dead until a volunteer emergency responder spotted her in the rubble.

Typhoon Meranti struck China's mainland after pounding Taiwan, making landfall early Thursday near Xiamen in Fujian Province, according to CNN meteorologists.

Delicately designed, overwhelmingly dense, and often an acquired taste for many in the West, mooncakes are one of the most famous foods found in Chinese communities around the world at this time of year.

Health Canada has amended its regulations to allow Canadian doctors to prescribe heroin as a treatment for those who are severely addicted to the drug. Last week's change to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act permits doctors to apply for permission under the federal Special Access Program to offer their addicted patients diacetylmorphine: pharmaceutical-grade heroin.

Ethiopian runner Feyisa Lilesa's crossed wrists gesture at the Rio Games has put the spotlight on his home nation and made a big impact on his life.

The sounds of war, for now at least, have given way to the infectious laughter of children.

Edward Snowden wants to come in from the cold.

A dispute over water in India's Silicon Valley has claimed its first victim: a demonstrator shot by police who opened fire amid violent protests.

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has been taken to a hospital after "having suffered a brain episode," the office of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Tuesday.

The US has bombarded an ISIS chemical weapons plant that was housed in a converted Iraqi pharmaceutical factory, a top Air Force commander said Tuesday.

Heavily armored riot police fired tear gas as locals threw rocks and other projectiles amid ongoing unrest in Wukan, a village in China's Guangdong province.