France ratcheted up its efforts to defeat militants in Mali.

Ghana reelected John Dramani Mahama to be president for a four-year term on Sunday. But despite high-voter turnout and modern voting technology, the failure of the biometric identification system led to widespread accusations of rigging the election. Does Sunday's election signal the next era of peace in West Africa's most stable democracy or will a contested election mean that Ghana's peace will go the way of Mali and the Ivory Coast?

University of Tokyo scientists discovered miraculin binds to sweet-sensing tastebuds, amplifying that taste in acidic foods.