BANGKOK - At a hip Bangkok diner, foodies with an adventurous palate tuck into a bug-based menu that includes watermelon salad sprinkled in bamboo worms, nachos with silkworm cherry tomato salsa and pasta made from ground crickets.
SANAA, Yemen - Yemen's ruinous civil war has taken its toll on one of the impoverished country's prized exports - its coveted honey.
LONDON - Planes using fuels made from trash sent to landfill dump sites could take off from British airports under a new government scheme announced at the weekend.
PARIS - Getting Europe's migrant crisis under control will be the main focus of a summit of Europe's "big four" continental powers hosted on Monday by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has invited three African nations to the talks in Paris.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000 from Monday, as the world's toughest law aimed at reducing plastic pollution came into effect.
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.
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