NEALTICAN, Mexico - A sea of bright orange flowers sways in the wind, releasing the intense fragrance of the blossoms across the foothills of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano.
BOOLIGAL, Australia - From abandoned baby kangaroos to wallabies being blinded by the sun and koalas having to go walkabout to look for eucalyptus leaves, Australia's exotic wild animals are struggling to adapt to a crippling drought.
TAMPA, Florida - Parkinson's disease has long been considered a disease of the brain, but research out on Wednesday found it may start in the gut - specifically in the appendix, a tiny organ near the large intestine.
MALMO, Sweden - Sheep eyeball juice. Bull testicles. Maggot-infested cheese. American root beer.
BARDIA NATIONAL PARK, Nepal - Chayan Kumar Chaudhary flicked through photographs captured on a hidden camera in the jungle, hoping his favorite big cat - dubbed "selfie tiger" for its love of the limelight - had made another appearance.
NEW YORK - Wealthy space buffs will have the chance to own three small particles of lunar matter when what Sotheby's describes as the only known documented "moon rocks" to be legally available for private ownership hit the auction block in November.
GIFU, Japan - In the pitch black night, fires burn alongside a river in Japan's Gifu as a handful of men prepare for a ritual that dates back more than 1,300 years: fishing with cormorants.
DIWANIYAH, Iraq - Sports teacher Nehaya Dhaher was living a quiet life looking after her elderly mother in Iraq's tribal south when she was asked to set up the country's first women's wrestling squad.
ROME - The long history of the stove-top moka coffee pot has, for generations, been among the most fundamental possessions of Italian families, but it may be bubbling to an end in the wake of relentless competition from modern technology.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent condolences to his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo over a plane crash that has likely killed all 189 people on board.
Shackled to a wheelchair, the man accused of fatally shooting 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue made a stony-faced, largely silent appearance on Monday in a federal courtroom, where he was ordered held without bond in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said it's sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which US President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of kilometers from the United States.
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