Seoul office worker Park Sun-min constantly checks his smartphone for updates on an insect apocalypse, ghost soldiers haunting the inter-Korean border, and a supermarket worker's struggle to form a trade union.
Outside, acrid smoke from wood fires stings the eye, the stench of uncollected garbage and neglected toilets assaults the nose, and an autumn wind chills the bone. But inside Mimi Amanuel's immaculate wood-framed shack, the nightmare life of Calais' migrant camp cannot overpower a woman's dreams.
A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest.
"I came from my room to see what was happening. I saw the fire and ran outside," said Dawit, a 13-year-old Ethiopian boy living in a Swedish center for asylum seekers.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a nationwide state of emergency and a curfew in the capital after a bomb attack on a presidential guard bus killed at least 12 people on Tuesday.
One of Pakistan's few female fighter jet pilots was killed in a training crash on Tuesday, the air force said in a statement, adding that she was the first of its women pilots to "embrace martyrdom".
Thousands of Cubans remain stuck on the Costa Rican side of the border with Nicaragua after Managua refused at a regional summit on Tuesday to open its doors to a wave of migrants heading for the United States.
At least three heavily armed militants stormed an army camp in the India-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, wounding an officer and a civilian worker as intense firing set barracks and a vehicle on fire, the army said.
Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the downing of its fighter jet by Turkey the day before appeared to be "a planned provocation", but said the countries will not go to war over the incident.
A Russian military pilot whose plane was shot down by Turkey and crashed in Syria arrived on Wednesday at an air base in Latakia province after being rescued by a Syrian army commando unit, Syrian and Russian officials said.
A haunting peal reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands reverberates across Pakistan's inhospitable Cholistan desert. The nation's first camel-mounted military bagpipe band marches, noses in the air.
The eight-legged water bear - a hardy, nearly microscopic animal resembling its mammal namesake - gets a huge chunk of its DNA from foreign organisms such as bacteria and plants, scientists said.
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