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Obama and Putin's last meeting
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for around four minutes at the APEC summit about Syria and Ukraine, in what is likely to be their last in-person meeting before Obama leaves office.
North Dakota pipeline protest
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmental activists protest the Dakota Access pipeline project, saying it threatens water supplies and sacred tribal sites.
Pukhrayan train accident
Over a 100 people were killed and more than 150 injured when an express train derailed near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Train accidents in India
India has witnessed many deadly train crashes over the years. Some of our photos from archives.
Closing in on Mosul
Iraqi forces move closer to driving Islamic State from their last major stronghold in the country.
Burial of Ferdinand Marcos draws protests
Former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos is buried almost 30 years after his death, amid scattered protests around Manila.
Barbed wire, glass and masks: Mexico's lucha extrema
The wrestlers of Total Ultra-Violent Disaster offer a bloodier version of Mexico's traditional, deeply-rooted wrestling spectacles, bashing each other with chairs and neon lights and sticking each other with plastic knives and forks. Full Coverage
The art of becoming Santa
At the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, Michigan, some two hundred Santas and Mrs. Clauses came from around the world to learn wood toy-making, brush up on storytelling skills, drive sleighs, feed reindeer and, most importantly, spread the Christmas spirit. Full Coverage
Children of caliphate face stateless future
Hundreds and perhaps thousands of children born in Islamic State-controlled areas are stateless. Full Coverage
El Salvador's young emergency workers
Young people in El Salvador find an escape from the gang rivalries in their schools and neighborhoods through a civil corps of voluntary rescue workers. Full Coverage
Serbia's bungalow cemeteries
From a distance, the cemetery in the eastern Serbian village of Smoljinac looks like a residential neighborhood eerily placed among graves. Full Coverage