MEXICO CITY - A raised fist made of helmets, pick axes and broken rubble rolled ahead of hundreds of walking skeletons, costumed dancers and flowery floats Saturday in Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade, which this year honored the 228 capital residents killed by a Sept 19 earthquake.
LONDON - At 24, Londoner Kai Brader-Tan did not expect to become a property owner so soon in a city where rocketing prices in recent years have prevented many of his peers from getting onto the housing ladder.
NEW YORK - Dancing is technically illegal in thousands of bars, clubs and restaurants in the city that never sleeps, but New York campaigners are finally in sight of getting the law overturned.
WASHINGTON - More than one in five American residents now speaks a language other than English at home, according to a new research based on 2016 US Census Bureau data.
SINGAPORE - Fake news has Asians amused, bewildered and in some cases deeply anguished about the turn of events.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Icelanders, angry over a string of political scandals, ousted the center-right government in an election that could pave the way for a young charismatic opposition leader to form a left-leaning coalition, final vote counts showed on Sunday.
LONDON - Nine crew members from a British nuclear submarine have been dismissed from the Royal Navy after failing drugs tests, national media in London reported on Saturday.
CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appointed a new armed forces chief of staff on Saturday, and the Interior Ministry dismissed several high-ranking officials in an apparent reorganization of the country's security command.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Opposition leader Raila Odinga on Sunday called for a new presidential election, claiming that Thursday's repeat poll was invalid due to the low turnout.
TANGERANG, Indonesia - Investigators combed a burntout fireworks factory on Friday after blasts killed 47 people, mostly young female workers, and injured dozens, as doctors treated survivors suffering from horrific burns of up to 80 percent of their bodies.
BANGKOK - With solemn faces and outright tears, millions of black-clad Thais said farewell to their king and longtime father figure on Thursday, capping a year of mourning with funeral ceremonies steeped in centuries of tradition.
GENEVA - The annual death toll from measles dropped below 100,000 worldwide for the first time last year, to 90,000, the World Health Organization and other international agencies said on Thursday.
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