Between plantations of bananas, mangoes and avocados, a small group of men trek along paths freshly carved out by the November rains on a mission to inform and educate in an area of western Kenya where AIDS remains rife.
As many US residents were buying online as were doing so in brick-and-mortar stores during the Thanksgiving-weekend shopping splurge, the National Retail Federation said on Sunday, highlighting a growing trend away from the traditional Black Friday consumer assault.
Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union bodies involved in peace efforts with the state of Palestine after the bloc started requiring the labeling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Japan's whaling fleet leaves on Tuesday for the Antarctic for a three-month, scaled-down hunt, the government said, despite protests from opponents who say Tokyo has not proved that whales need to be killed for research.
A former Malaysian diplomat pleaded guilty on Monday to the indecent assault of a New Zealand woman, with a court hearing that he burst into her bedroom naked from the waist down.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is reportedly close to securing its first significant global sports event in almost 40 years, in line with top leader Kim Jong-un's plans to turn the country into a sporting powerhouse.
A US investigation into a strike on an Afghan hospital run by a charity cited mistakes so "reckless" that observers said they left open the unsettling question of whether those involved had ripped up their own rule book in a chaotic effort to take out the Taliban.
Eldar Ryazanov, one of the most popular Soviet-era film directors whose comedies captured sometimes quirky aspects of life in the Soviet Union, died on Monday aged 88, family and colleagues said.
Turkey promised to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for cash, visas and renewed talks on joining the EU in a deal struck on Sunday that the Turkish prime minister called a "new beginning" for the uneasy neighbors.
Hamburg's bid to host the 2024 Olympics collapsed on Sunday after the majority of the city's residents voted against the multibillion-euro project in a referendum, killing off the candidacy and leaving officials in shock.
The social exclusion of young Muslims in France partly explains their radicalization, and the government must give people from poor suburbs more hope of success to reduce the risk of more violent attacks, a Cabinet minister said on Sunday.
The man arrested over a shooting spree that left three people dead and nine wounded at a prominent family planning center in Colorado Springs makes his first court appearance on Monday.
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