To the tourists watching a humpback whale frolic with her newborn calf in the tropical waters off Ecuador's coast near Puerto Lopez, the sight of enormous fins surfacing, tails flipping and blowholes spouting is breathtaking.
Working quietly in a classroom at a primary school in Dakar, 9-year-old blind boy Abdoulaye sits next to the star pupils, who watch and help him, and alert the teacher if he struggles.
Nearly a month after her party's crushing election win, opposition party leader Aung San Suu Kyi held closed-door talks with Myanmar's outgoing president on Wednesday to discuss what both hope will be a smooth transition of power.
Australian coal miners have walked off the job at Queensland mines because of fears over the resurgence of "black lung" disease, 30 years after it was supposedly eradicated.
Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: They would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of the nearby Wael Hotel.
Thailand's Prime Minister vowed on Wednesday to fix the kingdom's airline industry after the United States downgraded the country's air safety rating in an embarrassing blow to the tourist-reliant nation.
Prison officers in western India have come up with a novel way for convicts to secure early release - master some yoga poses and pass an exam, an official said Wednesday.
The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish-American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate.
For the first time in the year-plus fight against Islamic State militants, the United States is putting combat troops on the ground in a more permanent role in Iraq and Syria.
An explosion caused by a homemade bomb rocked an Istanbul metro station on Tuesday, triggering panic in the evening rush hour and wounding six people.
The Statue of Liberty, a symbol freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to US shores, was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal, researchers said.
Japan displayed a pair of two-legged humanoid robots on Wednesday that can operate in harsh conditions as the country prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions prepares for the next catastrophe.
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