A cortege carrying the remains of King Richard III was welcomed by thousands of people in Leicester on Sunday after a last journey to the nearby battlefield where he was slain 530 years ago.
Bookings to Cuba jumped 57 percent for one New York tour operator in the weeks after Washington said it would renew ties with Havana. In February, they were up 187 percent; and so far this month, nearly 250 percent.
A seriously ill man has begun a two-week ocean voyage on an icebreaker from an Australian Antarctic base to a hospital in Australia, officials said on Monday.
Indian farmer Nitin Tarode wants to sell his old bull to help pay for his sister's wedding after his income was hit by patchy rainfall.
Yemen is nearing "the edge of civil war", the UN envoy to the country warned on Sunday as the Security Council voiced unanimous support for its embattled leader, and Shiite militia seized the airport in a key city.
The Okinawa prefectural government ordered the suspension of underwater work on Monday in a coastal area in Nago where a key US air base is to be relocated, according to local report.
The heartbroken father of an Australian schoolboy believed to have died while carrying out a suicide bombing for Islamic State said on Monday he felt "totally responsible" for failing to see that his son needed help.
Indonesian anti-terror police have arrested five men who allegedly arranged for a group of mostly women and children to try and enter Syria to join the Islamic State group, an official said.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a conservative firebrand who frequently clashes with leaders of his Republican Party, became the first major figure from either major party to jump into the 2016 US presidential election race on Monday when he announced his candidacy on Twitter.
Whether it's the earnest Josiah Bartlet from The West Wing or the manipulative Frank Underwood in House of Cards, people in the US prefer television presidents to their real-life chief executive, President Barack Obama.
The slum-dwellers of Monrovia's Peace Island, refugees of civil war who found themselves suddenly overwhelmed and outmaneuvered by the deadly Ebola epidemic, are accustomed to life under siege.
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