Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter Hakar Mustafa swaps his Kalashnikov assault rifle at night for a notebook and pen, learning reading, writing and math near the front line held against brutal jihadists.
When Susannah Mushatt Jones and Emma Morano were born in 1899, there had not yet been a world war, penicillin had not been invented and electricity was still considered a marvel. The women are believed to be the last two in the world with birth dates in the 1800s.
Just before sunrise, Raul Rua joins 15 others, including women, teenagers and children, for a half-hour walk to pick coca in the world's No 1 coca-producing valley.
A washing machine stands in the middle of Maria Jimenez's California yard, like a redundant relic of modern life. Nearby are several rented mobile toilets, no longer in use.
A military transport plane crashed into a residential area two minutes after takeoff in northern Indonesia on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and putting a fresh spotlight on the country's air safety record.
Puerto Rico's governor warned on Monday that the US territory cannot pay its $72 billion public debt, as international economists released a critical report about the island's economy.
Two Uber France managers have been ordered to stand trial on behalf of the San Francisco-based company on charges including "deceptive commercial practices" and complicity in illegal activities linked to its low-cost ride-hailing service.
A Swedish woman who made lurid allegations of sexual conquest, betrayal and stalking against her former Wall Street executive boss was awarded $18 million by a federal jury on Monday.
The Khmer Rouge tribunal's Supreme Court will start the first appeal hearings against two elderly former senior leaders of the Democratic Kampuchea, or Khmer Rouge, on Thursday, a legal officer said on Tuesday.
The death toll from a heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial center, and parts of southern Sindh province passed 1,000 in the past 10 days, health officials said on Monday.
Around 10,000 protesters rallied in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Sunday night defying police threats to forcefully break up the demonstration against the government's controversial move to hike electricity prices.
Two Australian media organizations reported on Monday that Australian politics has been infiltrated at high levels by the Italian Mafia, although there was no suggestion of direct links between lawmakers and the criminal syndicate.
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