BANGSAL, Indonesia - Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after an earthquake that killed at least 347 people as rescuers on Wednesday doubled down on efforts to find those buried in the rubble.
PHUKET, Thailand - Thai officials said on Tuesday that they plan to salvage the sunken tourist boat Phoenix before Sunday, if weather conditions are good, while the investigation into the tragedy which happened on July 5 is under way.
Following confirmed reports of a renewed Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has said that it expects vaccination to start on Wednesday.
Britain's governing Conservative Party has been caught up in another damaging public row following comments made by former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about women wearing Muslim full-face veils known as burkas.
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said more work is needed to boost the reconciliation and peace process in Georgia.
PARIS - Europe baked in near-record temperatures on Monday but some respite was on the horizon after weeks of nonstop sunshine as people come to terms with what may prove to be the region's new normal in an era of climate change.
OSLO - The ship used by Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen finally returned home on Monday, completing its journey around the North Pole 100 years after her chaotic expedition started.
LA PAZ, Bolivia - The world would be a better place if more people studied the way of life of China's Shaolin warriors, Bolivia's Foreign Affairs Minister Fernando Huanacuni has said.
LOS ANGELES - Oscar winner Robert Redford will retire from acting following this autumn's release of his upcoming film The Old Man& The Gun, the 81-year-old told Entertainment Weekly in a story published on Monday.
TOKYO - Tokyo's Gotokuji temple has long attracted spiritual visitors with its thousands of figurines of beckoning white cats, thought to bring good luck. But of late it has brought in another breed: Instagrammers.
TOKYO - A bell tolled on Monday in Hiroshima as Japan marked 73 years since the world's first atomic bombing, with the city's mayor warning that rising nationalism worldwide threatened peace.
MARKOVEC, Slovenia - When he used to go hunting, Miha Mlakar would dream of killing a bear. But today, the 33-year-old from Slovenia makes his living watching the animals, peacefully, in their natural forest environment.
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