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A man carries a child to safety in the wake of the airstrikes in Aleppo.

Eastern Aleppo blitz kills almost 300 people in 5 days

Syria: The tragedy of Aleppo continues

Hospitals bombed in heavy airstrikes

Aleppo deaths pass 1,000 since brief ceasefire collapsed

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Tourist are showering at the
wellness resort „En Gedi
Spa" to remove the
aggressive salt water from
their skin.

The Dead Sea is drying out

Vice president-elect Mike Pence greets Christine Slavin, from Ipswich, Mass., and her dog Earle, in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, between meetings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The week in politics

Deaf-blind twins share special relationship

ROCKY, Sylvester Stallone, 1976

Yo, Adrian: 40 years of 'Rocky'

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. 04 November 2015. Gita, 45, on the left, holding her blind daughter Nitu, 24, posing for a portrait. They are both victims of Gita's husband's, a violent and alcoholic who, out of jealousy, threw acid at his wife, at Nitu and at Krishna, another daughter of 1 year old. Krishna died right after the attack, while Nitu, who was 3 years old back then, went blind.
Gita and Nitu are both activist of the Stop Acid Attack campaign, and they work at the Sheroes Hangout Cafè.

Cafe empowers acid attack survivors

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Kurdish Peshmerga forces inspect an abandoned house in the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, recaptured from the Islamic State (IS) jihadists by Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi forces.
The battle of Mosul, Iraq - Oct 2016

The homes left behind by ISIS

The Chicago Cubs celebrate after defeating the Cleveland Indians, Nov. 3, 2016 in Game 7 to win the World Series 8-7 at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)

The week in 30 photos

Missy Bianchi, 48, of Harlan, Kentucky, fears her children straying from their Christian faith. She does hair and makeup at a funeral home and says she is grateful to have spent so much time so close to death as it has made her and her family very comfortable with it. Because of her Christian beliefs she does not fear death. Instead, she fears the choices that her children will make. "My faith colors everything about my life. For them to stray away from their faith would be, in my opinion, the worst thing that could happen to them."

Americans share their greatest fears

Virginia Anderson (10) from Dallas, Oregon with her bunny Romeo (6 months) of «Black Otter Rex» breed she just bought at the show.
Raising rabbits for 3 years and now has 34 rabbits of 5 breeds.
«I have a rabbit called Minerva. She is my favorite because when I get sick I get her and cuddle and she makes me feel better. For one of the shows she spent at least 20 minutes on stage in a mask of Phantom of the Opera».

From Snickers to Pat Benatar: A rabbit convention in Oregon

Around the world

The latest from Africa

Project Sunroof shares some of its technology with Google Maps and Google Earth, and then adds its own spin to it. Photo: Miguel Villagran/Getty Images

How much solar energy can your roof make? Just Google it

Crowning the Oba of Benin Kingdom: tradition 700 years old

The latest from the Americas

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, vice presidential candidate Rosario Murillo show their marked thumbs after voting at a polling station near a his home in Managua, Nicaragua, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. Ortega appears headed for a a third consecutive term victory in the general election, but critics accused Ortega and his allies of manipulating the political system to guarantee he stays in power by dominating all branches of government. (Rodrigo Arangua/Pool via AP)

Nicaraguan President wins fourth term, this time with wife as VP

A snake on a plane, slithering, dangling overhead

Alfonso Cuarón film crew says Mexico City workers attacked them

The latest from Asia

The Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra

Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra unites musicians who fled war to Europe

5 reasons why South Korea's president is unlikely to quit

Japan's love affair with romance games

The latest from Europe

Candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election and former French prime minister, Francois Fillon delivers a speech at his campaign headquarters after finishing first of the first round of the rightwing presidential primary, on November 20, 2016 in Paris. / AFP / POOL / Thomas SAMSON (Photo credit should read THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Sarkozy out of France's Republican presidential race

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces run for fourth term

Can Europe survive the Trump effect?

The latest from the Middle East

Thabit has been sculpting immaculate statues that resemble some of the Assyrian artifacts destroyed by ISIS

Teen hits back at ISIS by sculpting Nimrud's ruined artifacts

In biblical lands of Iraq, Christianity in peril after ISIS

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The Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra

Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra unites musicians who fled war to Europe

Protestors wearing masks of South Korean President Park Geun-Hye (R) and her confidante Choi Soon-Sil (L) pose for a performance during a rally denouncing a scandal over President Park's aide in Seoul on October 27, 2016.
South Korean prosecutors on October 27 set up a high-powered "task-force" to probe a widening scandal involving alleged influence-peddling by a close confidante of President Park Geun-Hye. Choi Soon-Sil, an enigmatic woman with no government position, was already part of an investigation into allegations that she used her relationship with the president to strong-arm conglomerates into multi-million dollar donations to two non-profit foundations.
/ AFP / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

5 reasons why South Korea's president is unlikely to quit

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 12: Prince Harry meets the public at Cashel Street Mall on May 12, 2015 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Prince Harry is in New Zealand from May 9 through to May 16 attending events in Wellington, Invercargill, Stewart Island, Christchurch, Linton, Whanganui and Auckland. (Photo by Tim Rooke - Pool/Getty Images)

Highlights of Prince Harry's trips abroad

Being Christian in Iraq after ISIS

Candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election and former French prime minister, Francois Fillon delivers a speech at his campaign headquarters after finishing first of the first round of the rightwing presidential primary, on November 20, 2016 in Paris. / AFP / POOL / Thomas SAMSON (Photo credit should read THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Sarkozy out of France's Republican presidential race

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This teen uses clay to fight ISIS

Thabit has been sculpting immaculate statues that resemble some of the Assyrian artifacts destroyed by ISIS

Teen hits back at ISIS by sculpting Nimrud's ruined artifacts

Rescuers lift one of the 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train that rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

Dozens killed in train derailment in India

Japan's love affair with romance games

Japanese women play the game of love: Voltage's best apps

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Devastating famine threatens Nigeria

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016.

Duterte on the big stage: Philippines leader cozies up to Putin, Xi Jinping

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Trapped in the crossfire of a civil war

Visitors pose with a life-size picture of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in front of his house in Davao on Oct.22, 2016.( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

Welcome to Duterte country

South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye speaks during an address to the nation at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on November 4, 2016.
Park on November 4 agreed to submit to questioning by prosecutors investigating a corruption scandal engulfing her administration, accepting that the damaging fallout was "all my fault". / AFP / POOL / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)

South Korea: President Park to be investigated

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 08: Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, prepares to address the crowd at the 'Antiwar Mass Assembly' organised by the Stop the War Coalition in Trafalgar Square on October 8, 2011 in London, England. The demonstration sees prominent campaigners and artists calling for the British Government to immediately withdraw troops from Afghanistan. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Julian Assange Fast Facts

German Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel announced she will run for a fourth term in office in federal elections scheduled for next year.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces run for fourth term

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Angela Merkel seeks fourth term in Germany

In the Ankawa 2 Camp which became home for 1200 Christian families who were forced to flee their homes as Islamic State advanced in 2014, Erbil, Iraq.

In biblical lands of Iraq, Christianity in peril after ISIS

A White Crested Poland is seen at the National Poultry Show on November 20, 2016 in Telford, England.

Birds of a feather

A Syrian civil defence volunteer, known as the White Helmets, carries an injured man on November 19, 2016 following a reported air strike on Aleppo's rebel-held neighbourhood of Bab al-Nayrab. Intense government air strikes and artillery fire killed at least 27 people in rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo, where hospitals have been destroyed and schools forced to close.

Airstrikes crush Aleppo hospital

Train derailment kills over 100 in India

Rescuers lift one of the 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train that rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

Deadly train derailment in northern India

Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
A passenger train derailed in northern India on November 20, killing at least 63 travellers most of whom were sleeping when the fatal accident occurred, police said. Rescue workers rushed to the scene near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh state where the Patna-Indore express train derailed in the early hours of the morning.
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India train derailment kills dozens

A man carries a child to safety in the wake of the airstrikes in Aleppo.

Syria activists: Airstrikes knock out hospitals in rebel-held Aleppo

Amid higher global temperatures, sea ice at record lows at poles

TOPSHOT - A Peshmerga fighter runs to take position as the Iraqi Kurdish forces pushed deeper into the town of Bashiqa during street battles against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on November 8, 2016.
Capturing Bashiqa would be one of the final steps in securing the eastern approaches to Mosul, three weeks into an offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the country's second city.
The town was under the "complete control" of Kurdish peshmerga forces, Jabbar Yawar, the secretary general of the Kurdish regional ministry responsible for the fighters, told AFP. / AFP / Odd ANDERSEN (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push toward key city

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Iraq retakes town of Nimrud near ancient Assyrian city, Iraqi military says

Project Sunroof shares some of its technology with Google Maps and Google Earth, and then adds its own spin to it. Photo: Miguel Villagran/Getty Images

How much solar energy can your roof make? Just Google it

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Egypt grapples with economic crisis

How do you get the plates out without them falling, a Facebook poster asks the internet

Cupboard puzzle drives internet mad -- can you work it out?

View of the hydroelectric dam on the Reventazon River in Siquirres, in Costa Rica's Limon province, inagurated on September 16, 2016.
The Reventazon River hydropower dam is the largest public infrastructure project in Central America after the Panama Canal, and the largest hydroelectric dam in Central America. Built by the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE) with financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), it came onstream in 2016. / AFP / Ezequiel Becerra (Photo credit should read EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP/Getty Images)

¿Quiénes son los ganadores y perdedores de la semana?

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DeseARTE: la movida madrileña en Londres

FILE - In this Thursday Nov. 3, 2016 file photo media gather outside the High Court in London. High Court Judge Peter Jackson has granted the final wishes of a 14-year-old girl to be cryogenically preserved, in what he called the first case of its kind in England — and possibly the world. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)

Court allows teen to be cryogenically frozen

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¿Quién debe preocupar a EE.UU. más en cuestiones comerciales: México o Canadá?

Héroes de CNN: Cómo Votar

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Obama makes final trip to Europe as President

ISIS survivor tells her story

Aerial photographs show the seabed uplift north of Kaikoura

Large seabed exposed after strong quake

Aerial photographs show the seabed uplift north of Kaikoura

New Zealand earthquake so strong it lifted sea floor 2 meters

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Who is Taylor Fritz, the rising tennis champion?

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Senegalese singer brings hope to Bataclan

Kurds must give up captured territory once ISIS is defeated, Iraqi leader says

Newly crowned 40th Oba, or king, of the Benin kingdom, Oba Ewuare II , walks on a wooden bridge assisted by palace aides to perform the rite during his coronation.

Crowning the Oba of Benin Kingdom: tradition 700 years old

Newly crowned 40th Oba, or king, of the Benin kingdom, Oba Ewuare II , walks on a wooden bridge assisted by palace aides to perform the rite during his coronation.

Crowing a king: Benin's 700 year old tradition

ISIS claims bomb attack on wedding in Iraq, 20 dead

US-Senegalese hip-hop star Akon performs at a concert as part of "Peace One Day" celebrations on International Peace Day at the airport in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on September 21, 2014. AFP PHOTO/PHIL MOORE (Photo credit should read PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images)

From Afrobeat to Akon: Why African music finally has the world's ear