IRBIL, Iraq - After days of shelling by Iraqi forces, about 200 residents decided to take their chances and flee from one of the last pockets of Mosul controlled by the Islamic State group.
NEW DELHI - With 400 deaths per day, or one every four minutes, India has one of the worst road safety records in the world.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA chose 12 new astronauts on Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, hand-picking seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the nation's next generation of spacecraft.
HELSINGBORG, Sweden - Green Heinz ketchup? Fat-free Pringles? Colgate frozen lasagna? You don't need to be an expert to know these products weren't successful.
NEW YORK - Diamonds are making a comeback in the United States as more millennials fall for crystals long associated with "eternal" love.
PARISTyrannosaurus rex had scales, not feathers, said a study on Wednesday, which rescues the giant lizard's reputation as a fearsome killer with a rough-and-tough hide.
BOCHOR, Czech Republic - As global automakers compete to bring the first flying car to market, Czech pilot Pavel Brezina is trying a different tack: instead of creating a car that flies, he has made a "GyroDrive" - a mini helicopter you can drive.
BAMAKO, Mali - In Mali, where skin conditions are widespread and skin doctors are scarce, physicians have turned to technology to treat patients remotely.
Ian Toothill, a terminally ill cancer patient who has been given only months to live, climbed the world's highest mountain Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West.
BOKPYIN, Myanmar - The cries of amorous swiftlets echo around the dark room, an unlikely gold mine for traders in southern Myanmar who are cashing in on rising demand for the edible nests from China's growing middle class.
MARIA GUGGING, Austria - Nestled in the hills of Austria sits Gugging, an artists' colony with a difference where the worlds of psychiatry and art collide - with spectacular success.
BOGOTA - Emptying the bins of Colombia's capital, Jose Alberto Gutierrez one day found a copy of the classic novel Anna Karenina and kept it.
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