A New Jersey man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen firearms after prosecutors accused him of scheming to sell several guns believed to have belonged to the family of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The United Kingdom is set to become the first country in the world to allow the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man. Lawmakers in the House of Commons on Wednesday sanctioned a technique that stops genetic diseases being passed from mother to child.
The North Korean propaganda apparatus is not known for understatements, but Pyongyang on Wednesday upped the ante even by its own standards when it threatened the United States with the "most disastrous final doom on its mainland," warning that "the time of the nightmare" was near."
Thousands of cats who had been spared from becoming the entrées on Vietnamese dinner plates were then apparently buried alive by the country's authorities.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has ordered the start of an investigation into the purchases of his home, a house bought by his wife, and the home of his finance minister.
Ukrainian forces intensified their attacks on pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country on Wednesday and hit a section of Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, that had previously been considered safe.
Colombian rock star Juanes has been added to the 2015 Grammy Awards line-up and will perform the first Spanish-language, original Latin music song performance in the last ten years at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
For Miss Universe Paulina Vega, living in New York will prove challenging. For Miss Universe Paulina Vega, living in New York will prove challenging. The Colombian beauty queen will live in the American city for a year, and, so far, her stay has been marked by cold weather.
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the man who officially accused high ranking government off's Aicials of covering up an Iranian connection to the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, had drafted an arrest warrant for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner before dying on Jan. 19.
The Queen of Ska Punk, Gwen Stefani, on a hiatus from her duties from as the front woman of Orange County rock band No Doubt, made an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on Tuesday to critical acclaim by the studio audience, Rap-Up reports.
The May 2011 liaison between Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Nafissatou Diallo, then a maid at New York's Sofitel, led to the Frenchman's resignation as head of the International Monetary Fund and effectively ended his political career, which had included presidential aspirations. But Diallo's fortunes, too, seem to have turned.
Although Bolivian President Evo Morales is known for making sexist remarks, he changed his tune on Monday when he painfully admitted that "women are more intelligent" than men.
A TransAsia plane, flying from Taipei to a Chinese island, crashed minutes after take off. The number of dead has risen to 25 and could continue to rise. Taiwanese officials have begun investigating the airline, which has had previous accidents.
The United Nations has formally denounced the murders of Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, a Mexican journalist recently found killed weeks after his disappearance, and Kenji Goto, a Japanese freelancer assassinated by Islamist extremists in Syria.
The Puerto Rican government is reportedly broke, and the debt owed by the U.S. commonwealth is more than two times the $73 billion publicly estimated by government officials.
A bystander was killed on Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city. Meanwhile, authorities defused two more explosive devices at Cairo International Airport.
"Under Cane," a short documentary captured by photographer and filmmaker Ed Kashi for La Isla Foundation, showed the lives of numerous individuals touched by the disease that killed thousands, particularly in Nicaragua. More than 20,000 individuals, mostly male, have died from chronic kidney disease after working on the fields. Said to be an epidemic, the disease is spreading rabidly among sugarcane harvesters.
