Enthusiasts lose one vintage plane but press on south through Africa

Aviators flying vintage planes the length of Africa were showing them off in the skies over a Kenyan game park on Sunday, a day after one of the aircraft was wrecked in a forced landing.

Rapper sounds off at social discord

Israeli Arab rapper Tamer Nafar's politically-charged lyrics have sparked the same kind of controversy that may have made his hero Tupac Shakur proud.

Drawing on the past to help sex slaves

After escaping years of sexual slavery, Jennifer Kempton could not look in the mirror without being taken back to her dark, traumatic past.

Miniature monkey reunited with mother after wildlife park theft

Two men were charged on Monday with stealing rare pygmy marmosets from an Australian wildlife park as a baby was reunited with her mum and the hunt continued to find dad.

Conservative Fillon wins presidential primary

He will face fierce competition in April and May from far-right leader Marine Le Pen

Lawyer: President refuses questioning amid political scandal

South Korean President Park Geun-hye cannot be questioned by Tuesday as prosecutors have requested, her lawyer said, as she resists growing calls to resign over an influence scandal that has engulfed her administration.

Nation bids farewell to Fidel Castro

Cubans were scheduled to begin massing on Havana's Revolution Square from Monday for a weeklong commemoration of Fidel Castro, the guerrilla leader who led a revolution in 1959.

New Orleans French Quarter shooting kills 1 and wounds 9

Police had already increased patrols in New Orleans' bustling French Quarter before gunfire erupted on Sunday, leaving one man dead and nine other people wounded in a tourist district famed for its bars, bright lights and live music.

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IS bomb sows carnage among pilgrims

A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed 73 people, mainly Shiite pilgrims, south of Baghdad on Thursday, as Iraqi forces battle to retake Mosul from the extremists.

Haifa fire overcome but others still rage

Israeli firefighters on Friday reined in a wildfire that had spread across the country's third-largest city of Haifa and forced tens of thousands of people to flee, but continued to battle more than a dozen other fires around the country for the fourth day in a row.