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The “Sarco” suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber. The person is then supposed to fall asleep and die by suffocation in a few minutes.

Short corn developed by Bayer Crop Science is being tested on about 30,000 acres in the Midwest.

Alcohol-free beer has been gaining popularity in recent years as beer consumption shrinks.

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it.

Indian authorities are investigating the work environment at a global accounting firm after the death of a 26-year-old employee whose mother said she was overworked. 

The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved more transparent procedures Friday for the hundreds of individuals, companies and other entities who are subject to U.N. sanctions and want to get off the blacklists.

The four-day wedding celebrations began Friday with the traditional Hindu wedding ceremony and will be followed by a grand reception to run through the weekend

Since the peak was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it and many have left behind more than just their footprints.

Authorities have deployed 18 crafts for the clean-up efforts and laid close to 1,500 meters of container booms, temporary floating barriers to trap the oil spill.

It wasn’t a vintage red or white, but vintage it was. A man renovating his wine cellar in Austria discovered mammoth remains from the prehistoric era.

Mexico’s president made the announcement Friday evening after police forced their way into the Mexican embassy to arrest Ecuador’s former vice president.

Dutch police have detained a man who walked out of a nightclub where hostages were being held after a tense hours-long standoff. 

“This, of course, came as a huge shock,” the Princess of Wales said in a video released Friday.

Like Saudi Arabia’s linear city, called The Line, Bhutan’s “Gelephu Mindfulness City” shows how modern cities may look and function in the future.

Starting in 1947, the advocacy group used a clock to symbolize the potential and even likelihood of people doing something to end humanity.

Denmark’s prime minister proclaimed Frederik X as king Sunday after his mother Queen Margrethe II formally signed her abdication.

At the United Nations, U.S. deputy ambassador Christopher Lu said at a emergency Security Council meeting on Wednesday that Iran has supplied the Houthis with money and advanced weapons systems.

Interpol said it coordinated around 500 arrests worldwide from Oct. 2 to 27. More than 2,000 confiscations of animals and plants were made.

Russian police have put prominent Russian-American journalist and author Masha Gessen on a wanted list after opening a criminal case against them on charges of spreading false information about the Russian army.

The blaze began late Friday and was eventually brought under control and four people were confirmed killed, the fire department said in a statement.