CAIRO - About 50 kilometers east of the Egyptian capital, the construction of the Central Business District undertaken by China State Construction Engineering Corporation, or CSCEC, in the country's new administrative capital is carrying on under the scorching sun.
MOSUL, Iraq - One year after the Iraqi forces liberated the city of Mosul from the Islamic State extremists, tens of thousands of displaced residents are still living in tents, suffering in the scorching summer with temperatures of over 50 C.
MUMBAI - Tens of thousands of low-cost homes are lying empty across India even as officials race to meet a deadline to provide housing for everyone by 2022, which analysts say highlights critical shortcomings in government policy.
SYDNEY - Five major krill fishing companies on Tuesday agreed to halt operations across huge swathes of the Antarctic to help protect wildlife in a move hailed as "bold and progressive" by conservationists.
TRIPOLI, Libya - European Parliament chief Antonio Tajani in Libya on Monday called for a "blacklist" of people smugglers to be set up to help stem the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe.
Rescue workers saved the eighth boy from a flooded Thailand cave on Monday on the second day of an operation to retrieve 12 young soccer players and their coach who had been trapped underground for more than two weeks.
British police launched a murder inquiry on Sunday after a woman died following exposure to the nerve agent Novichok in southwest England.
DARAA, Syria - The flag of the Syrian Arab Republic flies once again at the Nasib border crossing between Syria and Jordan, after an absence of three years.
ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire - Researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have joined together in a battle against what one expert calls a root crop "Ebola" - a viral disease that could wreck the region's staple food and condemn millions to hunger.
LOS ANGELES - Cooler temperatures will bring some relief to firefighters battling California wildfires, but not until later in the week, the National Weather Service said.
STOCKHOLM - What do you do when this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the world's most prestigious accolade of its kind, is postponed because of a sexual assault scandal?
PHOENIX, Arizona - The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for "agua".
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