MECCA, Saudi Arabia - Dozens of Saudi craftsmen, mostly in their 40s and 50s, are hard at work in a factory in Mecca preparing an embroidered black and gold cloth to cover the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam.
JERUSALEM - Former high-tech executive Dotan Goshen carefully arranges some melons at the bottom of a crate, followed by courgettes, tomatoes and lettuce.
SYDNEY - An Australian man on Monday became one of only six amputees to swim across the English Channel.
SYDNEY - A boy from China left Australian TV viewers stunned on Sunday after he solved three Rubik's cubes simultaneously using his hands and feet.
SEOUL - The conviction and jailing of South Korea's top business tycoon heralds a drive to reform the country's giant conglomerates and loosen their grip on the economy, analysts said.
SANTIAGO, Chile - When he was 14, Aznous Boisseranc spent hours watching the martial movies of his idols Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
HAVANA - The first group of 200 former guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) arrived in Cuba on Saturday to study medicine as part of a scholarship program to promote the peace process in the South American country.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - They are in their ninth decade of life, but the rhythm of tango still thrills in the legs of Oscar and Nina.
SINGAPORE - Passengers' baggage is collected by robots, they relax in a luxurious waiting area complete with an indoor garden before getting a face scan and swiftly passing through security and immigration - this could be the airport of the future.
SEOUL - The heir to the Samsung empire was convicted of bribery and other offenses on Friday and jailed for five years in connection with the scandal that brought down South Korean president Park Geun-hye.
BANGKOK - An arrest warrant was issued on Friday for former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra who failed to appear in court on the judgment day of a rice lawsuit filed against her.
CHICAGO - Millions of people in the US Gulf Coast states of Texas and Louisiana have been bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Harvey as it intensified to category 2 with winds whipping up to 160 kilometers per hour.
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