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A Kabul professor tore up his diplomas live on television in Afghanistan in protest over the Taliban's barring of women from higher education.

American Girl's latest "Girl of the Year" is a spunky Broadway-loving dancer and singer -- and also the line's first-ever South Asian main character.

The global economy has endured a tough year, with decades-high inflation sapping post-lockdown spending and pushing central banks to hike borrowing costs at an unprecedented clip to bring it under control.

With sloping banks studded with elegant private mansions, palace parks and centuries-old groves, the Bosphorus is the embodiment of Istanbul.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is "lucid and vigilant" but his condition remains serious, the Vatican said Thursday in an update on the former pontiff's health.

The United Nations announced Wednesday it has suspended some of its "time-critical" programs in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's ban on female NGO workers.

The U.S. Virgin Islands government filed a lawsuit Tuesday against JPMorgan Chase, alleging that the Wall Street bank benefited financially from Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation and failed in its duty to report suspicious financial activity.

One person was killed during a massive pileup involving more than 200 vehicles in the central Chinese city Zhengzhou on Wednesday, according to state media.

This hasn't been a good year for the equities market. The S&P 500 is down nearly 20% and with two trading days left in the year, investors' hopes of a miraculous recovery have been dashed.

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Wednesday issued a four-day ban on carrying firearms in the capital as a precautionary measure ahead of the January 1 inauguration of President-elect Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva.

2022 was supposed to be a triumphant year for China and its leader Xi Jinping, as he began his second decade in power with a pledge to restore the nation to greatness.

Protesting Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo erected new barricades on Tuesday, hours after Serbia said it had put its army on the highest combat alert following weeks of escalating tensions between Belgrade and Pristina.

A 45-year-old Irish tourist died in Thailand on Tuesday after falling from a moving train, Thai police said.

For Andrei Soldatov and his friends, February 24 marked the end of Russia as they knew it.

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday said it was "deeply alarmed" by the ruling Taliban's ban on women attending university or working for aid groups in Afghanistan.

Japanese reconstruction minister Kenya Akiba tendered his resignation on Tuesday, becoming the fourth minister to leave the cabinet appointed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in August.

Novak Djokovic is back in Australia, according to a spokesperson with Tennis Australia, nearly a year after his high-profile visa ban from the country over his stance on the Covid-19 vaccination.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Tuesday banning oil supplies to countries that have introduced price caps on Russian oil and petroleum products, according to the decree published on the Kremlin's website -- a move that may prove to be largely symbolic.