The Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye will not attend an event in Moscow to mark the end of World War II in Europe and instead will send an envoy, an official said on Monday, dashing the possibility of a rare meeting with the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Every chapter of Iraq's modern history can be seen in this great, sprawling city of the dead, its mausoleums stretching across the horizon from one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines. And now, its sandy expanse grows again with the war dead killed by the country's latest adversary, the extremists of the Islamic State group.
A yearslong legal fight over a deadly shooting of civilians in an Iraq war zone reaches its reckoning point with the sentencing this week of four former Blackwater security guards.
Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the country in the face of a rebel advance last month, has appointed his former prime minister, Khaled Bahah, to be vice-president.
Nearly a year after her 16-year-old daughter was among 304 people killed when an overloaded ferry capsized, Park Eun-mi says not much has changed when it comes to safety in South Korea.
At first it seems like a fluke - a 2-year-old playing with the knobs and buttons of a sophisticated music system and in control of the big beat of bass-heavy house music. He is South Africa's youngest disc jockey, DJ AJ.
After 21 blissful months of one-on-one care, world media attention and carefree splashing in the Buckingham Palace pool, Prince George is facing a spot of upheaval in his gilded life - a sibling.
As usual when Latin America leftist leaders get together with US officials, there were plenty of swipes at the United States during the seventh Summit of the Americas.
It was World War II, Warsaw was under German occupation, and the wife of the director of the Warsaw zoo spotted troops approaching the white stucco villa that she and her family inhabited on the zoo grounds.
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a rebel base in central Yemen on Sunday and clashes raged in the southern city of Aden as France's foreign minister voiced Western support for the air campaign in Riyadh.
Pope Francis uttered the word "genocide" on Sunday in marking the centenary of the mass killings of Armenians 100 years ago, sparking anger from Turkey, which summoned the Vatican's ambassador for an explanation.
Angel di Maria has cost more than $130 million in transfers over his illustrious career, but the first fee paid for him was just 20 new soccer balls.
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