GETTYSBURG, UNITED STATES, Léo Mouren- In a bus taking them to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- site of the US Civil War's most famous battle -- the members of Boy Scout Troop 114 are all ears. "Listen up...
In extracts from the French-language edition provided to AFP by the French publisher Laffont, the pope calls himself "a man who is in need of God's mercy." Expounding on the notion of forgiveness,...
BURY, UNITED KINGDOM, Paul Ellis- Britain's Flying Scotsman, the first steam locomotive to hit 100 miles an hour, returned to the tracks on Friday following a decade-long project to restore the...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL- Millions of people around the world welcomed in the New Year on high security alert, with Munich stations evacuated over an imminent terror threat and fireworks canceled in...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Mohammed Abbas- South Africa's last white president, F. W. de Klerk, on Saturday criticised a campaign to remove a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from an Oxford...
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, Liliana Samuel- The long-lost granddaughter of a founder of an Argentine rights group that fights to find babies stolen by the 1976-1983 military dictatorship has been found,...
ZAYTSEVE, UKRAINE, Yulia Silina- For Oksana Boiko's children, the trip to school used to be a short walk to the other side of their tiny village of Zaytseve in east Ukraine. But the frontline in the...
BAGHDAD, IRAQ- It was smoky, alcohol-free and there was no swimsuit contest, but Saturday's party produced the first Miss Iraq in four decades and left all feeling a small victory had been won. "Some...
PARIS, FRANCE- A French nursery school teacher who invented a story that he had been stabbed by a man shouting about the Islamic State group has been taken to hospital for psychiatric tests, the...
HELANSHAN, CHINA- In country renowned for forgery, winemaker Jose Hernandez worries China's burgeoning viniculture industry will suffer from blatant copying of Bordeaux's output. China has the...
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