With the referendum for Scottish independence is just days away, Catalan separatists held a massive demonstration in Barcelona, pushing for a referendum-style consultation plan scheduled to take place on November.
Research shows that children speaking English as the native language have weaker math skills compared to children who speak other languages like Chinese, Korean and Turkish.
On Thursday, Yahoo released courts documents revealing that the U.S. government threatened the company with a harsh financial punishment if its requests for user data were rejected.
The police on the Indian side of Kashmir have started to collect floating bodies as the anger over the mismanagement of the flood aftermath rises.
Peruvian authorities are investigating the killing of an Ashaninka Indian village leader and environmental activist along with three others.
According to a report released on Tuesday by the Human Rights Watch organization, Israel unlawfully coerced almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into going back to their home countries even though some might risk serious abuse by their oppressive governments.
A 19-year-old girl from a Denver suburb is expected to plead guilty to charges of trying to aid the terrorist organization called the Islamic State.
A group made up of former presidents, politicians and intellectuals called The Global Commission on Drug Policy urged world governments to adopt policies to end their war on drugs and legalize drugs.
British Prime Minister David Cameron asked Scotts to not leave the United Kingdom and vote no for independence in the referendum next week.
On Monday U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had a meeting with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, to evaluate Turkey's contribution to the coalition to fight the Islamic State.
A wrongful conviction settlement for a group known as the Central Park Five has been approved by a U.S. federal judge. The city of New York now will pay $41million to five men who were wrongfully convicted, The Guardian reported
Harvard University received a $350 million gift from the family foundation of real estate developer brothers Gerald and Ronnie Chanof, based in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported.
S. Truett Cathy, the founder of the fast food chain Chick-Fil-A has passed away this morning in his suburban house south of Atlanta.
An investigation conducted by the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch has revealed evidence linking African Union troops in Somalia to sexual abuse of vulnerable women and girls, youngest victim was 12, The Guardian reports.
An unknown proportion of West Africans may turn out to be immune to Ebola virus, The New York Times reports.
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