Two men were due to appear in a Zimbabwean court on poaching charges on Wednesday after a wealthy US dentist killed a beloved lion at a national park, sparking waves of criticism around the world.
One of Japan's best-known contemporary artists is locked in a fight with a public museum over claims it has threatened to withdraw works critical of the conservative government.
The European Union said on Tuesday it is investigating whether Disneyland Paris is overcharging customers from certain countries in violation of the bloc's laws.
A pro surfer who coaches the Chinese National Surf Team and a tourism agency based in New Jersey plan a surfing expedition and training camp in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
A migrant who was trying to cross to Britain from France through the Channel Tunnel died early on Wednesday, French police said, adding to a number of recent deaths in the tunnel as British ministers and security chiefs were to meet over the crisis in Calais.
NATO strongly backed Turkey's fight against Islamic State militants in Syria at emergency talks on Tuesday, but some countries expressed concerns that strikes on Kurdish fighters could torpedo peace talks with the rebels.
The son of Muammar Gadhafi is unlikely to face a firing squad anytime soon, though he was convicted and sentenced to death on Tuesday on charges of murder and inciting genocide during the country's 2011 unrest.
Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel, will be released on parole on Nov 21 after 30 years in prison, a federal parole board ruled on Tuesday.
An Afghan official said on Wednesday his government is examining claims that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar is dead.
In the steamy Baghdad night, sweat poured down the faces of the Iraqi teens as they marched around a school courtyard, training for battle against the Islamic State group.
When Estefanie Ferraz went to prison, she had been living as a woman for about a decade, had undergone more than half a dozen plastic surgeries that included breast and cheek implants to enhance her feminine looks, and was saving up for a sex change operation.
Turkey and the United States have agreed on the outlines of a plan to rout Islamic State militants from a strip of Syrian territory along the Turkish border - a plan that opens the possibility of a safe haven for tens of thousands of displaced Syrians but one that also sets up a potential conflict with US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces in the area.
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