CHAPEC, Brazil - When Sirli Freitas lost her husband in the air crash that wiped out Brazil's Chapecoense soccer club, she had to rebuild her life. So she took his old job.
LOS ANGELES - Alexandre Amiel was alarmed when his 11-year-old son asked the day after the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris: "Why do they hate us?"
NEW YORK - Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs whose four-decade career spanned a staggering array of work from romantic comedy and rock music to hard-hitting documentaries, died on Wednesday. He was 73.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Recent floods and deadly mudslides, as well as withering droughts in Latin America have put the spotlight on extreme weather conditions that are likely to be more frequent due to climate change, according to experts.
MOSUL, Iraq - Leaning on his crutch, Nizar picks through the rubble where the main building of Mosul University used to be, looking for whatever administrative documents can still be salvaged.
PARIS - Newborn humpback whales and their mothers whisper to each other to escape potential predators, scientists reported on Wednesday, revealing the existence of a previously unknown survival technique.
SAN FRANCISCO - Uber said Tuesday it wants to launch a system of flying cars to move people around cities, with a goal of putting demonstration projects in place by 2020.
SYDNEY - Australians are racking up extreme levels of debt to buy homes that are among the world's most expensive, a ticking time bomb that could wreck the economy if it is hit by a sudden shock, experts warn.
PARIS - The modernist architect I.M. Pei, who was once pilloried for plonking a glass pyramid into the courtyard of the Louvre, turns 100 on Wednesday with his controversial creation now an icon of the French capital.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the United States record on Monday for most time in space and talked up Mars during a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump.
PARIS - A moth caterpillar commonly bred to provide fish bait feasts on a notoriously resistant plastic, scientists reported on Monday, raising hopes the creature can help in the fight against pollution.
VIENNA - The psychedelic clouds in Edvard Munch's iconic The Scream have alternatively been interpreted as a metaphor for mental anguish or a literal depiction of volcanic fallout.
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