Five years after an earthquake in Christchurch killed 185 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings, some residents have taken to calling it the "Donut City". The ravaged city center is still largely an empty core, and it's unclear how long it will remain that way.
Chalit Pongpitakwiset has always felt like a man. Now the 25-year-old wants everyone else to see it too.
About 10,000 protesters, many of them Chinese-American, rallied in New York on Saturday in support of a former police officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell in a public housing building.
Gianfranco Rosi's documentary film Fire at Sea, about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean off the Italian island of Lampedusa, won the Golden Bear prize for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday. The cinematography award went to Mark Lee Ping-Bing for his camera work for the Chinese film Crosscurrent, directed by Yang Chao.
Donald Trump widened his lead over the Republican party's presidential field claiming a big victory on Saturday as the contest moved into the South. Out West, Hillary Clinton beat Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for a crucial win in Nevada's Democratic caucuses.
With Brussels' endorsement of "special status" in hand, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Saturday that his country would hold a referendum on June 23 to decide whether to stay in or leave the European Union.
India deployed thousands of troops in a northern state on Sunday to quell protests that have severely hit water supplies to Delhi, a city of more than 20 million people, forced factories to close and killed 10 people.
A gunman drove in and around a western Michigan city randomly shooting people in the parking lots of an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant and killing at least seven, including a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.
Two blasts in the central Syrian city of Homs killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens on Sunday in the latest wave of violence to hit the city in recent weeks, state TV said.
Emotional scenes unfolded at Baghdad International Airport on Thursday as dozens of Iraqis who had sought refuge in Europe returned home.
A haunting image of migrants passing a baby underneath a razor-wire fence on the Serbian-Hungarian border won the prestigious World Press Photo award for 2015 on Thursday - even though it had never been published.
The tech industry is starting to line up with Apple in its fight against the federal government over the encryption it uses to keep iPhones secure.
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