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.
BRUSSELS - Angela Merkel's decision to quit as German chancellor in 2021 spells uncertainty and possibly paralysis for the European Union as populists rally, diplomats and analysts warn.
In the modern world of social media, photo-sharing and celebrity, sharing an image of an executed murder plotter from the 19th century may sound like a strange thing to do, but that was the unlikely starting point for what has turned out to be one of the biggest publishing hits of the year.
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her conservative party on Monday that she is prepared to step down as party leader, but will remain as chancellor following a pair of state election debacles, German media reported, in the clearest sign yet that the leader is preparing her eventual exit after voters again punished her fragile coalition in a regional poll.
DAMASCUS - Syrian officials, foreign archaeologists and restoration specialists attended the reopening ceremony of the Syria's National Museum in the heart of Damascus on Sunday, more than six years after the prominent institution was shut down and emptied as the country's civil war encroached on the capital.
TOKYO - Japan's Princess Ayako married a commoner in a ritual-filled ceremony on Monday at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine.
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