The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a wave of cases forces some countries to impose new curbs.
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of killing civilians by shelling cities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday, in an escalation of a month-long conflict over the mountain enclave that has defied three ceasefires.
In the modern republic of Singapore, several seemingly ordinary people working in offices or driving taxis can claim to be of royal blood, descendants of a 19th-century monarch who ceded control of the Southeast Asian island to the British.
Days of nationwide protests have followed a ruling by Poland's top court that abortion due to fetal defects is unconstitutional, amounting to a near-total ban on the procedure in the predominantly Catholic country.
Overflowing with aging cats who lost their owners to the COVID pandemic, a cat sanctuary in Barcelona has launched an online campaign to get them adopted.
The Costume Institute's upcoming exhibition "About Time: Fashion and Duration" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan explores fashion from 1870 to the present.
