The prosperous northern Indian state of Punjab is in the grip of a worsening drug abuse crisis. It’s estimated more than half of all rural households are home to at least one drug addict, a problem most acute along the border with Pakistan.
Life has changed radically for the Kurdish population in the northern Syrian town of Afrin since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime began last year. And women are enjoying the new wave of freedom as they learn to read and write their once-banned language.
A defiant Lance Armstrong on Wednesday rebutted the US Anti-Doping Agency's claims that he is a drug cheat, telling throngs of supporters at a Montreal cancer conference: 'I won the Tour de France seven times.'
Explosives experts in Germany detonated the remains of a 550-pound World War II bomb in central Munich on Tuesday. About 3,000 residents were forced to leave their homes and debris caused fires in several nearby buildings.