PARIS - It's lunchtime and Parisians are queuing for baguettes at a bakery on the Rue Montmartre, a sight long typical of life in the French capital.
SYDNEY - Coral bleached for two consecutive years at Australia's Great Barrier Reef has "zero prospect" of recovery, scientists warned on Monday, as they confirmed the site has again been hit by warming sea temperatures.
CHITWAN, Nepal - All hell broke loose as the one-horned rhino stepped out of the crate, the powerful male charging elephant-mounted mahouts relocating him to a new home in Nepal's far west in the hope of shoring up the vulnerable species.
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Spanish-speaking Bolivia is recognizing the importance of its native languages.
YANGON, Myanmar - People in Myanmar are busy preparing for celebrating the country's traditional Thingyan Water Festival.
President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolences to his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on Monday over the terrorist attacks that targeted two churches.
ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Sunday that the country's embattled bid to join the European Union will be back "on the table" after next week's referendum on enhancing his powers, raising new doubts about the future of the membership drive.
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's Prime Minister said on Monday the country would never yield to terrorism, as he led a minute's silence for those killed and injured when a truck driver mowed down pedestrians on a Stockholm shopping street.
CAIRO - At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in the latest assault on a religious minority increasingly targeted by Islamist militants.
LOS ANGELES - The US Navy said on Saturday it had sent the USS Carl Vinson Strike Group to the Korean Peninsula.
MOSCOW - Russia intends to discuss international counterterrorism with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his visit next week, despite clouded Russia-United States ties, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov said on Saturday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani affirmed his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on Sunday, following last week's United States missile strike on a Syrian airbase.