Chinese tourism is now open in Canada, thanks to the recent visit of Canada’s Prime Minister to the asian republic.
Kofi Yamgnane traded his native Togo four decades ago for Brittany, where he became France’s first-ever black mayor. After a full career in his adopted home, Yamgnane has gone back to his west African nation — and is running for president next year.
Families displaced by fighting in South Waziristan — some pro-Taliban, others anti-Taliban -- queue up to register as displaced with authorities. More than a quarter of a million people have fled Pakistan’s latest military offensive against insurgents.
The political crisis in Honduras following the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya in a June coup is starving the country’s already weak economy of cash, say analysts.
Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls symbolizing Satan on the third day of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. Around the world, Muslims have begun celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday.
Pilgrims pelted pillars symbolising the devil with pebbles to show their defiance on the third day of the Hajj celebration.
Bucharest is not exactly known for its picturesque visage, the city scarred by ageing concrete apartment blocks and the outsized palace of the Ceausescu era. But behind the Communist facade the Romanian capital boasts some century-old architectural gems.
New surveillance video shows one of the suspects behind a massive luggage theft scheme caught in the act at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport.
Travelers help keep things moving at Los Angeles International Airport the day before the Thanksgiving holiday. They are packing light and leaving early.
Michelin has added a cheap restaurant category to its new Hong Kong and Macau guide, after critics accused the culinary bible of ignoring the cities' food-stall culture.
Strapped for cash, the Palace of Versailles is giving up shapely statues and marble benches for adoption to individuals who will pay for their restoration.
In Nepal, a Hindu festival calls for a mass animal sacrifice. Some 200,000 buffaloes, goats and chickens will be killed as art of the blood-soaked festival held every five years to honor a Hindu goddess of power.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed next to President Hugo Chavez that Iran and Venezuela would "stand together until the end" in the face of US "imperialism."
Pilgrims flooded into the Arafat plain from Mecca and Mina before dawn for a key ritual around Mount Arafat, the site where Mohammed gave his farewell sermon in this day on the Islamic calendar 1,377 years ago.
The book by an escort at the heart of a sex scandal involving the Italian Prime Minister hits the book shops with details of their alleged lovemaking.
The roughly half a million people living with HIV in Russia brave a daily dose of discrimination. Despite laws protecting them from bias, many - like Svetlana, who lost custody of her younger brother - complain of ostracism and deprivation.
Hundreds of thousands of animals have been slaughtered in Nepal. The two-day Gadhimai festival honours the Hindu goddess of power and takes place once every five years.
Undergoing a sex-change procedure has just got harder in Thailand. The aim is to stop people making a hastily-made, irreversible decision. But many see the new law as unnecessary.
Prosecutors demanded a 40-year jail term Wednesday for Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, as he expressed "excruciating remorse" for the deaths of 15,000 Cambodians at his brutal torture centre.