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.
Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts are back on Earth. The shuttle landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday morning.
Adventurer Yves Rossy’s attempt at crossing a 38-kilometre stretch of the North Atlantic using jet-propelled wings ended in failure, but it was a marketing breakthrough.
Notre Dame fired football coach Charlie Weis, three days after he completed a 6-6 season with a loss at Stanford. Weis was let go with six years remaining on a 10-year contract signed midway through his first season.
It’s not just face lifts and boob jobs anymore, How about cankles? Droopy earlobes? Fat Knees and more? No problem, but get ready to pay.
More people are HIV positive in South Africa than in any other country in the world. Yet many men still refuse to face up to the problem. A new scheme in Johannesburg hopes to change that, by talking directly to guys in the bars and clubs around town about the risks.