WASHINGTON - First, Bao Bao and Bei Bei the pandas made a splash at the National Zoo in Washington. Then, April the Giraffe wowed fans at a game park in New York.
BOSTON, Massachusetts - A good roasting hasn't caused a meltdown at Boston's new wax museum.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - For more than 30 years Oscar Cadiach risked life and limb to conquer some of the world's most unforgiving terrain, driven by a desire to join the ranks of mountain climbing's elite.
ERNSTBRUNN, Austria - "When they lick your face, keep your mouth closed. They have long tongues," Kurt Kotrschal tells the group before they enter the wolf enclosure, soliciting a few nervous chuckles.
MEMPHIS, Tennessee - A movie theater in the southeastern US state of Tennessee has halted its annual screening of Gone with the Wind after receiving complaints over the film's racial content, said media reports.
BANGKOK - At a hip Bangkok diner, foodies with an adventurous palate tuck into a bug-based menu that includes watermelon salad sprinkled in bamboo worms, nachos with silkworm cherry tomato salsa and pasta made from ground crickets.
SANAA, Yemen - Yemen's ruinous civil war has taken its toll on one of the impoverished country's prized exports - its coveted honey.
LONDON - Planes using fuels made from trash sent to landfill dump sites could take off from British airports under a new government scheme announced at the weekend.
PARIS - Getting Europe's migrant crisis under control will be the main focus of a summit of Europe's "big four" continental powers hosted on Monday by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has invited three African nations to the talks in Paris.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000 from Monday, as the world's toughest law aimed at reducing plastic pollution came into effect.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia - Dozens of Saudi craftsmen, mostly in their 40s and 50s, are hard at work in a factory in Mecca preparing an embroidered black and gold cloth to cover the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam.
JERUSALEM - Former high-tech executive Dotan Goshen carefully arranges some melons at the bottom of a crate, followed by courgettes, tomatoes and lettuce.
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