Players' efforts over the years to get Wimbledon's all-white clothing rule relaxed got a boost on Thursday when Roger Federer said he thought the policy is "quite extreme."
"I don't have more work here in London, so if you want to use the house, it's going to be free."
The last time Myanmar slave Myint Naing asked to go home, he was beaten almost to death. But after being gone eight years and forced to work on a boat in Indonesia, he was willing to risk everything to see his mother again.
Pakistan has been battling Islamic extremists for more than a decade, but despite $30 billion in US aid and an American drone campaign, the country still hosts powerful armed groups that have killed tens of thousands of people.
Around the world, people use bank machines to access cash. But in the Kenyan capital's crowded slums, people use similar machines to access an even more basic requirement - clean water.
Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but are still a luxury for a third of the world's people who have no access to them, according to a report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
The United States and Cuba have agreed to open embassies in each other's capitals, the biggest tangible step in the countries' historic bid to restore ties after more than a half-century of hostile relations.
A Houthi Shiite rebel attack on a residential district in Yemen's second-largest city, Aden, killed at least 20 civilians on Wednesday as loyalist forces in Taez launched a manhunt for 1,200 escaped prisoners.
The death toll from the crash of an Indonesian air force plane packed with military personnel and their families rose to 142 on Wednesday, as witnesses described people fleeing from the disaster zone covered in blood with their clothes alight.
Heavily-armed police quelled a riot involving up to 300 inmates at an Australian prison on Wednesday over the introduction of a smoking ban. Some prisoners were injured.
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