MANILA - A beaming bride who defiantly marched up a flooded church aisle in the Philippines has won hearts as the country suffers a fresh bout of monsoon rains.
MARIESTAD, Sweden - It's barely 6 am and Alfred is already busy milking cows. But when his chores on the farm are done, he won't be going home - he'll be returning to his prison cell.
MATARAM, Indonesia - Hotels in Indonesia's Lombok that were damaged by the recent magnitude 7.0 earthquake plan to reopen as soon as possible to attract tourists.
LONDON - Nobel Prizewinning British author V.S. Naipaul has died at the age of 85, his family announced on Saturday.
BERKELEY, California - College student Anjali Banerjee was watching fireworks during a 2016 celebration on a seafront promenade in the French city of Nice when a man plowed a huge truck through the crowd, killing 86 people and wounding 200.
BUCHAREST - A park became paradise for Chinese martial arts lovers on Saturday, with the eye-catching "World Wushu-Kung Fu Day" banner fluttering in the light breeze.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan's worst drought in living memory ravages the country.
Deqing county in East China's Zhejiang province will host the United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress from Nov 19 to 21.
In the Internet Plus era, the use of geographic information has spread across industries and has been integrated with products and services, from unmanned aerial vehicles to map applications for mobile phones.
SUVA, Fiji - A team from the visiting Chinese naval hospital ship Peace Ark brought free medical services to the residents of Vatulele, an island more than 100 kilometers away from Fiji's capital Suva.
UKIAH, California - Thousands of firefighters, backed by US troops and crews from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, have made progress in their battle with California's biggest wildfire on record - but the weather forecast for the rest of the week is not promising, officials said.
TEHERAN, Iran - Melika Aghaei's fingers move slowly across the keys of the digital piano as she softly sings a children's song to the delight of the cafe's customers, while Mehdi Khakian takes orders for espressos and lattes.
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