From his birthplace in London to his adopted home in New York, David Bowie fans around the world gathered on Monday to mourn a star who many said had shaped their lives.
Life on the streets of New York may be miserable for the thousands of homeless who sleep rough, but many are disillusioned by stepped-up efforts to eradicate a modern-day crisis.
Gunmen detonated suicide vests inside a shopping complex in Baghdad on Monday and a car bomb exploded nearby in an attack claimed by Islamic State that killed at least 18 people and wounded 40 others.
A wild elephant trampled a rubber tapper to death and left her 2-year-old son badly injured, Thai police said on Tuesday, the second deadly attack in the area in recent months.
Justin Dlomo watches his small herd of emaciated cattle scrounge for bits of dry grass with a growing sense of dread.
A jailed Indonesian firebrand cleric on Tuesday challenged his conviction for funding a militant group in court, as a hundreds-strong crowd chanting "God is great" rallied in support of the Islamist preacher.
A professional hunter in Zimbabwe has canceled a plan to raffle a lion hunt at a hunters' convention in the United States, following protests from activists.
A string of attacks on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve blamed largely on foreigners was "intolerable", German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said on Monday, but added nothing excuses retaliatory assaults on immigrants.
In return for staying at a Danish refugee center, Iranian software engineer Sarah Alimalayeri said she was happy to hand over the gold bracelet and necklace she was wearing, but not her pendant.
The mother of a Texas teenager, derided for his "affluenza" defense for killing four people while driving drunk, posted bond on Monday and is set to be released from a county jail on Tuesday, the Tarrant County sheriff said.
An explosion killed at least 10 people and injured 15 others on Tuesday in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists, the Istanbul governor's office said. At least six Germans were among the wounded, a news agency reported.
Residents of a central New York village want to keep their logo that has been called racist and offensive because it appears to show a white man choking a Native American.
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