When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was president of Brazil, he often ordered dishes like goat stomach stew from a warehouse-turned-restaurant in the nation's capital.
Qatar Airways says it has suspended an employee after a picture surfaced online of him smiling with a pair of abayas — black robes worn by conservative Muslim women — that were apparently left onboard an international flight.
Rome prosecutors investigating the torture death of an Italian researcher in Cairo have been pressing their Egyptian counterparts for detailed records of the man's cell phone use before he disappeared on Jan. 25.
Volunteer first responders in Syria's Aleppo have pulled the bodies of nine people, including four children, from the rubble following air raids Friday on a rebel-held district.
Turkey's foreign minister has criticized the European Union's "weakness" for not being able to get ethnically divided Cyprus to stop blocking key parts of its membership negotiations with the 28-member bloc.
A rare opposition party that has been allowed to run in the upcoming Russian parliamentary election could be taken off the ballot days before the vote.
Volunteer first responders in Syria's Aleppo say they have pulled the bodies of nine people, including four children, from the rubble following air raids on a rebel-held area.
Muslims awaiting the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage have climbed a historic mountaintop looking over the holy city of Mecca, taking in its modern sights from a place revered in Islamic history.
The FIFA ethics committee says it has opened a formal bribery case against former president Sepp Blatter and two others over million-dollar bonuses in their contracts.
Britain's Serious Fraud Office says it has charged three executives of supermarket chain Tesco over an accounting scandal in which the company overstated its profits.
German officials say about 500 metric tons (551 tons) of dual-use compounds from the chemicals weapons program of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will be destroyed by the end of the year.
Conservationists say Zimbabwe and Malawi are allowing flights by anti-poaching drones as part of an initiative supported by Google and the WWF conservation group.