When Palestinian Osama Silwadi was crippled by gunfire it ended his career as a war correspondent, but the now wheelchair-bound photographer has found a new calling - documenting his people's heritage.
The paralyzed Polish man who regained the ability to walk after receiving a revolutionary treatment said he was a "lucky devil" on Wednesday, as his doctors announced they were looking for new candidates for the procedure.
Nearly 50 years ago, scientists found bones of two large, powerful dinosaur arms in Mongolia and figured they had discovered a fearsome beast with killer claws.
A group of young Pakistani girls sit on a carpeted floor listening as their teacher writes on a whiteboard, preparing his students for the rigors of climbing some of the world's highest peaks.
Japan was roiled by its third political scandal in a week on Thursday after the new trade minister - whose predecessor resigned in disgrace over improper spending - admitted that his supporters had spent office cash at a sex bar.
With improved living conditions brought about by Vietnam's steady economic growth, more and more residents are slowly discarding parts of their traditional family values.
Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted of the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad on Wednesday, but they plan to appeal, their lawyers said.
Boeing said on Wednesday that it had sold aircraft-related goods to Iran Air in the third quarter, marking the first acknowledged dealings between US aerospace companies and Iran since the 1979 US hostage crisis.
Australian authorities have alerted Indonesia that wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may wash up on its coastline.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed the country would "not be intimidated" after a reported Muslim convert stormed Parliament and killed a soldier, the nation's second "terrorist" attack in days.
Federal officials working to keep Ebola from spreading into the United States have ordered all travelers who come into the United States from three Ebola-stricken West African nations to be monitored for three weeks.
As 40-year-old Mohammed Iqbal sifts through sludge in the back alleys of Kolkata's jewelry market for gold dust, his weathered face brightens slightly at the recent increase in work.
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