A study conducted and published this month by Anscombe Bioethics Centre, which serves the Catholic Church in Great Britain and Ireland, unsurprisingly found that countries that have legalized assisted suicide or euthanasia have higher rates of “self-initiated” suicides. 

Myanmar’s ruling military on Thursday freed a former British ambassador, a Japanese filmmaker and an Australian economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said, among nearly 6,000 prisoners included in a mass amnesty.

North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday that landed just 130 miles off Japan and had sufficient range to reach the mainland of the United States, Japanese officials told reporters.

Given the many big-ticket stories emerging from the U.S. in recent weeks, it was easy to overlook that the Justice Department secured a lengthy federal sentence for a man who planned to bomb a church in aid of the mission of ISIS. 

Aaron Judge added his first Most Valuable Player award to his record-setting season. Paul Goldschmidt finally got his MVP trophy, too.

Flood-weary residents in Australia’s southeast were urged to remain on high alert for major flooding through the weekend, authorities said on Friday, as swollen rivers continued to roll downstream despite an ease in severe weather conditions.

An early winter storm could bury parts of western New York state in up to 4 feet of snow by late this weekend, forecasters said on Thursday, and paralyze the city of Buffalo and other areas downwind of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.