A variety of events were held in the Czech capital, Prague, to commemorate the Velvet Revolution on November 17. On that day in 1989, a crackdown on a student march by former Czechoslovakia's police triggered events that ended communist rule over the country.
Tens of thousands of nationalists marched in the Polish capital, Warsaw, to mark the country's Independence Day on November 11. As demonstrators chanted slogans against immigration and the EU, they were joined by supporters of far-right parties from other European countries.
In parts of rural Romanian, brown bears occasionally wander into villages and make a meal of livestock. The hungry intruders become increasingly bold as winter approaches. Hunting this protected species is forbidden, but lawmakers are debating a bill that would declare open season for the next five years.
Afghanistan has a drug problem from the abundant poppies that get made into opium. A group of Afghan women has found a way out of their addiction through a different crop.
Syrian Kurds near the border town of Kobane threw stones in protest against a joint Russian-Turkish military police convoy as it was passing through the area on November 5. (AFP/Reuters)
There's not much uncharted territory left to discover on Earth -- except at the poles, where new land is emerging as ice sheets melt. This summer, Russian researchers explored five Arctic islands newly revealed by a thawing glacier.
Emotions ran high at a soccer game in Tehran. For thousands of female fans, it was the first professional game they'd been allowed to attend in their lives.
Faced with discrimination, many among Kosovo's Romany population make a living by selling scrap to recycling companies. The job is poorly paid and risky, but one of the few they can find.
Armenian-American media star Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney were chased by crowds of fans and journalists during a visit to the ancestral homeland. The Kardashians were seen outside a hotel and a restaurant in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on October 7.
Thousands of Ukrainians have rallied in the capital, Kyiv, against the government's plan to hold local elections in parts of the eastern Donbas region that are controlled by Russia-backed separatists. The arrangement is part of the so-called Steinmeier Formula.
Russia's protest movement has inspired a new wave of fashion designs.
A new documentary about Renia Spiegel, a young Polish Jew who was murdered at the age of 18 by the Nazis in the Polish city of Przemysl, has premiered in Warsaw. Her diary, which details her life in the Przemysl ghetto, has just been published in English after lying in a bank vault for decades.
Hajra Bibi produces handmade sanitary pads and sells them to women in her local town. Many women in Pakistan still use only cloth during menstruation and periods are considered taboo in some rural areas. She and 80 other women were trained to make the pads by an international charity.
Estera Bajer was smuggled out of a Nazi concentration camp in Belgrade in a bag, moments after her birth. She wants to see a proper memorial built at the site of the Sajmiste camp in the Serbian capital where her mother and an estimated 7,000 other Jews were held before they died.
They don't speak Russian. Some of them can't really sing. But a group of men from a small town have won over Australian audiences with their spirited renditions of traditional Russian songs.
The trial of Armenia's former President Robert Kocharian resumed in Yerevan on September 12. He faces up to 15 years in prison for the deadly 2008 crackdown on demonstrators during his final days in office.
A Paris housing project named after the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, is to be demolished. Officially opened in 1963 in the presence of Gagarin himself, the "Cite Gagarine" was built by the local French communist government.
At this month's Basketball World Cup in China, 24-year-old Serbian standout Nikola Jokic is being billed as one of the stars of the tournament. He's already one of the highest-paid players in the United States as an NBA all-star. Back home in Serbia, the big man is an inspiration in his small town.
A Russian postwoman rides a "monster truck" through swamps and forests to deliver mail and goods to her isolated Siberian village.
Cricket, soccer, and mountain biking are all popular in Afghanistan, but another sport is getting a grip on local athletes. In Kabul, a growing number of men, and a few women, are playing a new European import: rugby.
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