NICOSIA, Cyprus - Volunteers and police in Cyprus are struggling to tackle illegal songbird trapping operations that kill millions of birds a year and net huge profits for poaching gangs.
SYDNEY - Australia's first recycled supermarket is giving food destined for landfills a second chance, as the government embarks on a major push to cut down on waste costing the economy A$20 billion ($15 billion) a year.
HONOLULU, Hawaii - No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe.
MILAN - It is a rare exception to the rule: the gender salary gap in the fashion industry means female models are paid more than their male counterparts for the same job.
BOGOTA - Three young women were killed and nine others injured after a strong explosion rocked a shopping mall in Colombia's capital on Saturday, local media reported. Among the dead was a 23-year-old Frenchwoman who was working in Bogota.
SEOUL - A United Nations veteran was appointed on Sunday as the Republic of Korea's first female foreign minister, tasked with easing tensions over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear ambitions.
LONDON - London police on Saturday raised to 58 the number of deaths either confirmed or presumed following the horrific inferno that turned the city's Grenfell Tower public housing block into a charred hulk.
AVELAR, Portugal - Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 62 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what Prime Minister Antonio Costa called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years".
TOKYO - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slumped more than 10 points to 44.9 percent in a public opinion poll published on Sunday, amid opposition party suspicions he used his influence unfairly to help a friend set up a business.
YOKOSUKA, Japan - The search for seven United States Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan was called off on Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.
BEIJING - As the US Senate passed new sanctions against Russia on Thursday,
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