DAVOS, Switzerland - The global economy and geopolitical tensions are taking a back seat to a more immediate problem at this year's Davos summit of political and business leaders: Heavy snow is burying the venue.
ALLAHABAD, India - Millions of Hindu devotees are gathering in northern India for the Magh Mela - one of the world's biggest religious festivals involving ritual bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges river.
JAKARTA - A moderately strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 shook the Indonesian island of Java on Tuesday, damaging buildings near the epicenter and shaking office buildings in the capital.
BERLIN - A German male nurse serving a life term for killing six hospital patients with lethal drugs out of "boredom" will face trial for another 97 murders, prosecutors said on Monday.
SAN BARTOLOME DE PINARES, Spain - Thick smoke fills the cobbled streets of San Bartolome de Pinares as the sound of galloping hoofs edges ever closer to a bonfire crackling nearby.
MONROVIA - George Weah emerged from Liberia's slums to become a superstar soccer player in the 1990s, and has spent the last 13 years building political credibility to match his status as a sporting icon.
KATHMANDU - Tourism Minister Jitendra Narayan Dev has hinted at plans to revoke the order tightening rules for disabled people from attempting to climb Mount Everest, known in the West as Qomolangma.
LONDON - Four out of every five dollars of wealth generated in 2017 ended up in the pockets of the richest 1 percent, while the poorest half of humanity got nothing, a report published by Oxfam found on Monday.
ATHENS - The audience at the Acropolis Museum in Athens on Friday evening came face to face with the past when professor Manolis Papagrigorakis and his team unveiled the resurrected appearance of "Avgi" (Dawn), an 18-year-old woman who lived around 7000 BC in ancient Greece.
ANKARA - Many would prefer probably not to dwell on what becomes of books thrown into the rubbish bin when their onetime reader declutters their shelves.
SINGAPORE - There could soon be regulations here to ensure that discarded electrical and electronic items are recycled and reused, to help shrink the mountain of computers, laptops, refrigerators and other e-waste thrown away in Singapore.
NEW YORK - Tourists who came to Battery Park in lower Manhattan hoping to catch a ferry to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor got an unpleasant surprise on Saturday, learning the must-see destination was closed because of the US government shutdown.
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