
Some foreign mountaineers looking to ascend the world's highest peak in Nepal are divided between staying and going as Sherpas demand better compensation and improved safety conditions following a recent avalanche that killed 16 local guides

Some foreign mountaineers looking to ascend the world's highest peak in Nepal are divided between staying and going as Sherpas demand better compensation and improved safety conditions following a recent avalanche that killed 16 local guides

Reactions to Benedict Cumberbatch making 2014's TIME 100 list were unambiguous: people are thrilled.
Religious leaders, philanthropists and activists in Africa were among the individuals honored
Dozens more were injured in two attacks a week after the Taliban ended a ceasefire with Pakistan's government
Opposition forces in Homs are struggling to stand their ground as government forces aim to undo rebel gains ahead of the June elections
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Anti-government demonstrators marked Easter Sunday by burning effigies of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas
The 15-year-old was discovered by one of her biological sisters
The social media site is thought to have removed his page on the grounds that it violated restrictions on promoting violence
Iran's supreme leader has encouraged the government to boost birthrates by rolling back family planning laws
The country's justice ministry has relocated the infamous prison's inmates over concerns about militant attacks, following a jailbreak last July
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Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to a year of community service on Tuesday for his tax fraud conviction last year. The 77-year-old will reportedly spend at least one half-day per week in an elderly care center in Milan
Jewish groups objected to the proposed sale of items owned by Hitler and Goering, calling it 'obscene'

Syrian President Bashar Assad claims government forces are handily beating the diverse range of opposition fighters in his country's civil war, now in its fourth year, as his loyalists capture former rebel-held towns near the Lebanese border
Two sons of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi and thirty of his former associates will be tried for widespread corruption and war crimes
The 14-year-old in the northern region of Kano killed her husband during a dinner celebrating their wedding
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