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A 9.51-carat blue stone that once belonged to the heiress Bunny Mellon sold for $7 million less than at its last auction, a sign of profound shifts in the diamond industry.

The cease-fire with Hamas has blunted the hunger faced by Gazans during the war. But aid agencies say Israeli restrictions are still hobbling their work.

Forty-two migrants were presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off the Libyan coast this month. Many of the presumed victims were fleeing a raging conflict in Sudan.

Modern cellphone cameras make it easy to capture the famously fickle Aurora Borealis.

The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.

A constitutional reform in the nuclear-armed country extends the chief’s power over all the military and brings Pakistan’s highest court under tighter political control.

Large parts of Syria were once overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State. The country’s new government has just committed to a global effort to fight the group.

The rare explosions in the country’s capitals have not been directly linked, but there are fears the governments will blame each other after their previous military conflict alarmed the world.

Sanae Takaichi drew criticism for requiring staff to work in the wee hours in a country scarred by “death from overwork.”

Astronomers identified more than 3,000 stars associated with the cluster, and there might be even more.