Reuters

Dafne Schippers completed her transformation from heptathlete to world champion sprinter when she ran the fourth fastest 200 meters of all time.

Tensions have been running high between the nuclear-armed neighbors since peace talks that were due to be held last weekend were called off at the last minute.

Austrian police had originally put the toll at up to 50 and are due to announce the exact number within hours.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shut the crossings last week after a shootout between smugglers and troops wounded three soldiers.

A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat had set off, said there were around 400 people on board.

The U.S. said Thursday it had asked Uzbekistan to join the multinational coalition it leads against Islamic State, saying Central Asia's most populous state was free to choose a way of contributing to the fight against the militant group.

Success of a new international inquiry aimed at assigning blame for chemical weapons attacks during Syria's four-year-old civil war will require full cooperation of all warring parties, Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.

Chinese police have arrested a driver who allegedly pulled a knife on the woman after suddenly stopping in a tunnel and robbed her of more than 5,000 yuan.

Joshua Wong, the 18-year-old leader of student group Scholarism, was charged with unlawful assembly and inciting others to participate in unlawful assembly.

Obama particularly cited Merkel's decision to ease the burden on other countries by providing haven to Syrian refugees.

The bank, containing the raw material for making fuel for nuclear power plants, will be built in Ust-Kamenogorsk in northeastern Kazakhstan.

President Salva Kiir last week asked for more time for consultations, drawing threats of U.N. sanctions if he failed to ink it within a two-week deadline.

Hungary made plans on Wednesday to reinforce its southern border with helicopters, mounted police and dogs, and was also considering using the army as record numbers of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, passed through coils of razor-wire into Europe.

Vice President Joe Biden, in his first publicly aired comments on a possible presidential candidacy, told fellow Democrats on Wednesday he was trying to decide whether he could give "my whole heart and my whole soul" to a run for the White House.

Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists, in a gesture to shore up a tenuous ceasefire, agreed on Wednesday to strive for an end to all truce violations from next Tuesday, the OSCE and rebel representatives said.

Sea levels worldwide rose an average of nearly 3 inches (8 cm) since 1992, the result of warming waters and melting ice, a panel of NASA scientists said on Wednesday.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet agreed a draft law to bring forward the transfer of 500 million euros ($575 million) originally intended for 2016.

Residents in the capital Sanaa reported hearing a big roar as the Scud was launched from near the city, followed by Saudi-led air strikes.

The front line between the regional Kurdish peshmerga forces and Islamic State in northern Iraq has hardly budged for months.

This year marks several sensitive anniversaries for the remote region that China has ruled with an iron fist since 1950, when Communist troops marched in and took control in what Beijing calls a "peaceful liberation."

Macau, the only place in China where citizens are allowed to gamble in casinos, has long been considered a money laundering hub.

Seoul is preparing to open a new channel of dialogue with the North after the Tuesday accord, in which North Korea expressed regret over a landmine incident.

UNHCR says it does not see any end to the influx of people in coming months amid continued violence in both Iraq and Syria.

The operation comes days after a Moroccan man was accused of attacking passengers on a train in France.

Myanmar's recent elections have been plagued by military interference.

Choe Ryong Hae, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, will attend the Sept. 3 parade, Chinese deputy foreign minister Zhang Ming told a news briefing.

The baton now passes to the third largest bloc in parliament, the far-left Popular Unity party that broke away from Alexis Tsipras's leftist Syriza party just last week.

Reeva Steenkamp's parents have spoken out for the first time against the court's verdict.

A man in a yellow shirt was caught on CCTV leaving the scene on the back of a motorcycle taxi.