They go to paddle between glistening icebergs or ski on blinding white ice, but a rising number of polar tourists get to see something else, too: the monumental changes wrought by global warming.
Wolves have returned to a large national park on the northern outskirts of Warsaw, decades after they were wiped out in the area under a hunt launched by authorities.
Belgium's tourist boards have latched on to the social media craze of cats, which gave Brussels light relief during a tense five-day security lockdown in the wake of militant attacks in Paris.
Child suspects and victims of crimes in Thailand are commonly paraded before journalists, who identify them, their families and home addresses, violating their rights and further traumatizing them, experts say.
Heavy flooding in Qatar on Wednesday caused gridlock on the country's roads as well as closures of schools and the US embassy.
A political rally by opposition supporters turned violent, leaving two police officers injured after rocks were thrown and guns fired during disturbances in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
A senior United Nations official has accused Yemen's dominant Houthi group of obstructing the delivery of humanitarian supplies to civilians in Taiz and warned that up to 200,000 people are living under "virtual siege" in the city.
Russian gas giant Gazprom ceased supplying gas to Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that Kiev had failed to make the required upfront payments on time.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was time to take a decision to join airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, arguing that Britain cannot "subcontract its security to other countries".
The co-founder of the California-based rock band Eagles of Death Metal, whose Paris concert was targeted in a deadly attack by militants this month, said in an interview with Vice posted on Wednesday that he came face-to-face with a gunman backstage.
The white Chicago policeman charged with murdering a black teenager he shot 16 times spent his first full day in custody on Wednesday in a jail hospital ward, as calm prevailed in a city braced for civil unrest over new video footage of the slaying.
A German federal state said on Wednesday it had transferred details of secret Swiss bank accounts with assets worth nearly $4 billion to Athens, as part of efforts to clamp down on Greek tax cheats.
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