YAKUTSK, Russia - Eduard Romanov points to a spot on a block of flats where a major supporting beam has sagged and begun to crack, destabilizing the nine stories of apartments above.
LUMBERTON, North Carolina - For more than 25 years, the man identified as the triggerman in the death of Michael Jordan's father has repeatedly declared his innocence in the murder.
BERLIN - A knife-edge vote on Friday will determine Angela Merkel's successor as head of her party after 18 years at the helm, with the German chancellor's own political fate and legacy on the line.
PARIS - The French government on Tuesday announced the suspension of fuel tax increases for six months, in a bid to quell fierce protests which have ballooned into the deepest crisis of Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
MEXICO CITY - Newly installed Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched his "transformation" of the country on Monday with a return to presidential news conferences and a new commission to investigate the internationally condemned disappearance of 43 students in 2014.
BEHROR, India - Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions of Indians using air conditioning - helping make the world hotter still.
The United Kingdom-based international charity The Big Issue is equipping some of its street-corner vendors with contactless card readers in response to changing trends that mean many people now leave their wallets at home and few carry "spare change".
The Chinese consulate in Sapporo is working closely with Japanese authorities after 11 Chinese citizens were arrested in Hokkaido, and will make sure the detainees get a fair and impartial investigation, the head of the consulate said on Tuesday.
TEHERAN - Iran will continue to develop and test missiles in line with its deterrence policy despite adversarial positions taken on the issue by the United States, a spokesman of the Iranian Armed Forces said on Sunday.
AMMAN - Two Jordanian families aim to put wine from their desert land on the world viticultural map, reviving an age-old tradition that some suggest has biblical heritage.
PARIANGAN, Indonesia - Waves of muddy water slosh over the jockey as he hangs on to the tails of a pair of bulls galloping across the rice paddy.
HELSINKI - What do you give the world's most literate country for its 100th birthday? For Finland's politicians and public, the answer was simple: A vast, state-of-the-art library, a new "living room for the nation".
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