Actress Emma Watson spoke to global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday regarding plans to spread the United Nations' new gender equality initiative worldwide. The "Harry Potter" star appeared in her role as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and shared plans for the yearlong initiative, IMPACT 10X10X10, which addresses deficiencies in women's empowerment and gender equality and presented alongside a panel including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
Andre Correa, Rio de Janeiro state's top environmental official, has acknowledged that Brazil's pledge of bringing down the levels of pollution flowing into the trash, raw sewage and debris-filled Guanabara Bay by 80 percent for the 2016 Summer Olympics is an unrealistic goal.
Economic "worries" prevail across Latin America according to an assessment by Alejandro Werner, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) director for the Western Hemisphere. Werner made this pronouncement two days after the economic organization closed its 2015 growth forecast.
Abdullah, who had ruled Saudi Arabia since 2005, had been suffering from a lung infection. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who cautiously reformed Saudi Arabia amidst the Arab Spring revolts and Islamic State militants' threats, died on Friday at age 90.
The Miss Universe contest is right around the corner, and Migbelis Castellanos, who is representing Miss Venezuela, is feeling confident about her chances.
Prince Andrew spoke publicly for the first time Thursday about the sexual misconduct claims at the World Economic Forum reception in Davos, Switzerland.
According to sources, detainees held at the U.S. prison complex in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can not be sent to Yemen after the Obama administration effectively reinstated a ban on such transfers given the volatile security situation in the Arab world's poorest country.
The risk of an ISIS terror attack in Britain is "very significant," Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned on Thursday. His countrymen ought to be on the lookout to "disrupt ... plots before they come to the stage of an attack," he added.
It is one of the most timeless and iconic visages of all time, but that didn’t keep museum handlers from making short work of it. The legendary blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun has been glued back together with a cheap epoxy, after having been unceremoniously knocked off during a cleaning.
The United States and Cuban officials are on their second day of diplomatic talks in the island, which will include plans to reopen embassies at their respective capitals.
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Fox News may see some legal troubles coming their way after the mayor of Paris threatened to sue the American news channel over its allegations regarding "no-go zones" in the French capital. Though the network has apologized, the city remains determined to pursue legal action.
Jose Manuel Fernandez Castineiras, a former electrician for Spain's famed cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, went on trial on Monday for the alleged stealing of a priceless illumined manuscript, a 12th-century Codex Calixtinus that is considered to be Europe’s first travel guide.
On Tuesday, Mexican prosecutors announced that an Austrian forensics lab has been unable to find anymore DNA to identify the burned remains that may belong to 43 missing college students.
