The 4 million alpacas that graze on the remote slopes of Peru's southeastern Andes wear warm coats of a silky fiber highly sought in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Gunmen from al-Qaida's North African branch killed 16 people, including four Europeans, at a beach resort town in Cote d'Ivoire on Sunday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks that have confirmed the extremists' growing reach in West Africa.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was facing fresh pressure on Monday after a regional election drubbing described as a "debacle" over her liberal refugee policy.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday ordered the deployment of the army to protect electricity substations connected to the national power grid following a nationwide power outage on Sunday.
An activist blogger has been ordered to pay $109,000 in libel damages to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in installments over the next 17 years, his lawyer said on Monday.
Mammoth demonstrations across Brazil are putting even more pressure on embattled President Dilma Rousseff as she heads into a tough week in her attempt to survive impeachment proceedings in Congress.
Two robotic spacecraft began a seven-month journey to Mars on Monday as part of a European-Russian unmanned space mission to sniff out leads to life on the Red Planet.
A US serviceman stationed in Okinawa Island was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman, Japanese police said on Monday.
An Indian student from the lowest Dalit caste was hacked to death and his wife critically injured in southern India in a suspected "honor killing" by relatives angered by their marriage, police said Monday.
An Emirati fighter jet suffered a "technical malfunction" and crashed on Monday while taking part in the Saudi-led war against Shiite rebels in Yemen, killing the plane's two pilots, authorities said.
Twelve-year-old Iraqi Nejla Imad holds a white table tennis ball against her bat with her thumb, flicks it into the air and sends it bouncing over the net.
Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus did she realize "something had gone very wrong".
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