Despite the danger, Baghdad residents flocked to shops and markets on October 11 to prepare for the festival marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Athens's cutting edge new Acropolis Museum will begin receiving 4,000 ancient works, many of them arriving by crane from the old museum, on October 14.
Along the Chinese and Kazakh border, many sheepherders are abandoning their traditional nomadic lifestyle in response to desertification and economic pressures.
As the leaders of the two Koreas meet for a historic summit today, South Korean school kids are being taught to accept and understand their northern neighbors.
One group of Croatian grandmothers may have found the secret to staying young: sailing. Meet the seafaring seniors as they navigate their skiff off the Dalmatian coast.
Reproduced from an eighth-century Koran, a solid-gold book worth an estimated six million U.S. dollars was loaned from Russia to Iran in September 2007.