The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, is home to a unique animal - the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism, as shrines sacred to them are coming under attack by Islamist hard-liners who deem them heretical. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Hundreds of police in riot gear attempted to clear Istanbul's central Taksim Square of anti-government protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week. Police used tear gas and water cannon against the crowd. Protesters exploded... [Full Article]
For a week, heavy rain fell across the Czech countryside. Rivers burst their banks, flooding farmland. Then the meandering Vltava, which runs through historic Prague, rose to threatening levels, a torrent that is now wreaking havoc in the north and a... [Full Article]
Demonstrations across Turkey were ignited by a violent police crackdown on a peaceful sit-in to prevent the uprooting of trees at Istanbul's Taksim Square. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Teenagers throughout Latin America have long looked north for pop music inspiration. Now the East is rising, with a large and enthusiastic cult of fans in some countries following the K-pop music from Korea. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Former Beatle Ringo Starr is lifting the lid on a collection of previously unseen photographs of the Fab Four in their heyday from his personal collection, in a new photography book due out next month. "Photograph," which will b... [Full Article]
GEZIRAT AL-FADEL, Egypt (AP) - In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Penins... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans ... [Full Article]