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Evolving with the times, a 122-year-old interfaith event now embraces religions that have traditionally been excluded.

The U.N.'s top human rights official said the Syrian refugee debate echoed prewar rhetoric that led the world to turn its back on Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.

Drivers for the service have also formed their own union in response to Uber's rate decision.

More than a third of artists' contracts with labels and publishers contain no mention at all of income from digital sources, a survey of artists' managers found.

A Dutch inquiry reportedly found that the Malaysia Airlines plane was brought down by a Buk missile over Ukraine. The July 2014 crash killed all 298 people on board.

The German automaker's emissions-software controversy has affected mostly European nations, but countries in Africa and Asia have not been immune.

Singapore and Malaysia sent in Bombardier, Chinook and other aircraft to battle Indonesia's haze-inducing forest fires.

A resident of the Philippines says his relative spotted wreckage of a plane with a Malaysian flag inside on the island of Tawi Tawi.

With the world’s attention focused on the Middle East and Europe, the leaders of small island countries have pointed to a separate burgeoning refugee crisis.

The Indonesian government initially insisted that it would not accept help from other countries to battle the forest fires.

Meanwhile, Volkswagen's Australia unit said it will conduct a voluntary recall of nearly 100,000 vehicles equipped with emissions-rigging software.

The deal with the Philippines has not been finalized, but according to a local report, Australia offered funding of $150 million over five years in initial talks. 

Scientists warned Thursday that climate change and weather patterns could cause another global coral bleaching with huge negative consequences.

Asian and European stocks traded mostly lower though Chinese stocks surged in a post-holiday catch-up session, while U.S. stock futures pointed to a weak opening.

Poor Muslims in the region may be ideal targets for radical groups looking to recruit for deployment abroad.

The talks comes amid the company's disclosure that over 90,000 vehicles sold in Australia are equipped with software to cheat on emissions tests.

The High Court of Australia ruled that the BRCA1 gene -- which acts as a tumor suppressor and can increase risk of breast and ovarian cancer, if mutated -- is not a "patentable invention."

Curtis Cheng, a civilian member of Sydney police, was fatally shot by an Iranian teenager Friday.

French prosecutors confirmed last month that a wing component found on Réunion Island in July came from the missing plane.

While Asian stocks extended their gains Tuesday, European markets were weighed down by weak German factory data released earlier in the day.

The United States tentatively agreed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, but many members of Congress remain unsure about the deal.