Nigeria on Friday unveiled a nine-meter tall statue of Jesus Christ carved from white marble, thought to be the biggest of its kind in Africa.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on Saturday toured communities ravaged by flooding that killed at least 31 people in several states and forced large-scale evacuations, as the danger of rising waters shifted to Arkansas and beyond.
An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-normal incidents of death and cancer among residents in and around Naples, thanks to decades of toxic waste dumping by the local Camorra mob.
Somalia's elegant colonial villas were left in ruins by two decades of street fighting among warlords, and the seaside capital Mogadishu was dubbed the most dangerous city in the world.
Gunfire and blasts were heard on Sunday at an Indian Air Force base attacked by militants a day earlier, as security forces hunted two gunmen still at large in the sprawling facility near the border with Pakistan.
A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia's national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the West have deteriorated in recent years.
The mayor of a city south of Mexico's capital was shot to death on Saturday, less than a day after taking office, officials said.
French investigators found jihadist propaganda material on Saturday in the computer of a man who drove his car into troops guarding a mosque in France on New Year's Day but said it did not prove he had links with any terrorist groups.
Twin infants born just as New Year's Champagne corks were popping share the same parents, but different birth years.
Al-Qaida's East African affiliate has released a recruitment video targeting US blacks and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.
It is dark and foggy at 4 am as Xu Chunfu sets sail on the Wusuli River, the border between China and Russia.
Iceland's challenges include boiling hot springs, frigid waters and vast wildernesses where sudden fogs leave you terribly alone. For me, the most daunting challenge was the tungumalanamskeidid - a course in trying to learn the language.
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