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Warsaw is planning on upgrading five key areas – air defense, naval, cybersecurity, tank and armored vehicle, and territorial defense.

In two new developments, scientists created a jumping robot inspired by an African primate and found flaws in flying robot designs by studying a bird’s flight.

A Human Rights Watch report, released Tuesday, alleged that China’s anti-corruption watchdog is committing “serious human rights abuses.”

During its latest run, the Large Hadron Collider smashed through its luminosity targets by a wide margin. The next run is scheduled to begin in March 2017.

Global weapons sales saw a dip for the fifth consecutive year, according to a report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

The bill has been on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s agenda since he took office but has been routinely delayed over worries about gambling addiction and organized crime.

Fugro Equator, which is now the only vessel searching for the missing jet, is expected to complete its mission by early 2017.

The ring-grazing maneuver — the first of 20 the spacecraft is scheduled to carry out over the coming months — will provide some of the best views of Saturn's rings.

Rescue efforts are underway to dig out survivors of the tremor.

Zykadia more than doubled the median progression-free survival rate for patients suffering from anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive nonsmall cell lung cancer.

The Pearl Harbor attack that took place on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 was the catalyst that plunged the U.S. into the Second World War.

On average, U.S. students were middling in every subject tested: science, math and reading.

Merkel said “full-facial covering should be banned." 

Canada has vowed to help ease the pressure on Lebanon amid the ongoing refugee crisis in Syria.

The find confirms the infectious disease's existence in ancient times and puts an approximate age on the scourge.

"The more debris we find, the easier it will be to find where the crash happened," Ghislain Wattrelos, who lost three relatives in the crash, told the Associated Press.

François Fillon and Marine Le Pen are the leading candidates to replace François Hollande as French president.

Incumbent John Dramani Mahama will again face off against Nana Akufo-Addo in Ghana’s presidential election Wednesday.

The suspects, detained in 2013, were accused of forming a spy ring in collaboration with Iran and leaking classified information on Saudi military zones.

The German chancellor's refugee policy has come under fire once again after an Afghan refugee was arrested over the alleged rape and murder of a German student.

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker admitted to raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977 and pleaded guilty to multiple charges.

Park Geun-hye was reportedly planning to resign in April, but will now wait for the constitutional court’s decision on her impeachment if the parliament votes for it Friday.

The online attack on the ministry's cyber wing reportedly took place in September but was confirmed Tuesday.

Abu Hassan al-Muhajir replaced Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike near al-Bab, Syria, on Aug. 30.

Isolated Muslim communities need to be integrated into society to keep extremists and the far-right from being able to claim Islam is incompatible with modern British life.

The terror group's new spokesperson has implored ISIS fighters "not to flee."

The leader of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu suffered cadiac arrest Sunday.

The currency rebounded largely because of exaggerated expectations for the euro’s response to the political discord in Italy.

OPEC's decision to curb production last week sent oil prices soaring, but the cartel promised Monday to work with nonmember countries to keep prices from fluctuating too wildly.