An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 192 people from China to Bali was forced to turn back after the crew realized one of its doors was not properly closed, the airline said Friday.
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Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black and white photo of himself. Then he repeated it, every day, for the next three decades.
Baden's "Every Day" project officially turns 30 on Thursday and he says he has no intention of stopping. The stark contemplation on mortality and aging has prompted some to dub the Boston College professor the unwitting "father of the selfie."
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It's the stuff of nightmares -- a cockroach crawls up your nose in the middle of the night, burrows in and drives you mad with scratching behind your eyes. But for one Indian woman, this horror story proved all too real.
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The US Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider which bathrooms transgender people are allowed to use at a hearing next month, amid raging debate on the politically charged issue.
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Sri Lankan police have arrested an astrologer after his prediction that President Maithripala Sirisena would die last week proved to be wide of the mark.
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A Nigerian man who was once ordered by an Islamic court to divorce 82 of his 86 wives has died at the age of 93, his spokesman said on Monday.
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A nude painting of impeached South Korean president Park Geun-Hye met a violent end at the country's parliament Tuesday, reports said, as supporters tore the work -- which evokes Edouard Manet's Olympia -- off the wall and destroyed it.
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Fewer sex toys contain dangerous chemicals than children's toys, a Swedish inspection authority said in a report on Monday.
In 2015, the agency found dangerous chemical substances, including lead, in 15 percent of children's toys in Sweden.
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A topless protester managed to get so close to Donald Trump on Tuesday that she grabbed his crotch... or rather that of his effigy, the latest addition to Madrid's Wax Museum.
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A Kenyan opposition MP has urged fellow women to impose a sex boycott until their men register to vote in August's general election.
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