When David Hershkoviz was a child, he used to wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of his mother screaming in her sleep, knowing that she was reliving the horrors of the Holocaust.
Recalling a bygone era of stately passenger liners and quaint colonial traditions, the RMS St. Helena is making its last journeys before weekly flights to the far-flung South Atlantic island are introduced and the ship no longer sails.
The 50-year-old man from the village scrambled up a grassy hill to ask the on-site manager of a US mining company for work. Joseph Tony had heard VCS Mining was bringing jobs, along with paved roads and electricity, to this corner of rural northern Haiti.
Drinkers across Europe may be closer to finding out how many calories they are imbibing as consumer advocates push for nutritional labeling on alcoholic drinks in the face of strong resistance by the industry.
The International Whaling Commission's panel of experts on Monday said it opposed Japan's proposal for its scientific research whaling program, saying it did not demonstrate a need for killing whales.
As the United States and Iran come closer to a historic nuclear deal, many US states are likely to stick with their own sanctions on Iran, complicating any warming of relations between the longtime foes.
The number of Europeans fighting with jihadist groups in Syria could exceed 6,000, an EU official told a French newspaper on Monday.
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.
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