Young skaters challenge old dudes at Minneapolis X Games

Skateboarding has always been a young person's game but when the X Games kicks off in Minneapolis on Thursday, competitors as young as 10 will be fighting it out for the most prestigious prizes in...

Polish 'I am LGBT' campaign attracts tens of thousands of Twitter supporters

Tens of thousands of Twitter users have expressed support for gay rights in Poland as part of the #jestemLGBT campaign, aimed at fighting discrimination and homophobia in a country where the ruling...

In Belgium, horses pull shrimp nets in tradition unchanged for 600 years

In the small western Belgian fishing village of Oostduinkerke, fishermen use horses, rather than boats, to go shrimp fishing -- one of the very few places in the world still using a technique dating...

Meghan guest edits British Vogue, features 'Forces for Change' women

Meghan, wife of Britain's Prince Harry, has chosen to feature 15 women she considers "Forces for change" on the cover of the September issue of British Vogue that she guest edited, Buckingham Palace...

Fit for the king? Thai monarchist's birthday haircut

On one side of his head it reads "Long Live", on the other "The King". And on the back is a painstakingly snipped birthday portrait of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

Chains, shackles and auction documents: remnants of the Africa to North America slave trade

In late August 1619, a ship carrying "20 and odd" African men and women docked at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia.

Flying Frenchman's hoverboard bid to cross Channel scuppered by fuel mishap

A French inventor failed in his attempt to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard on Thursday when he was knocked into the water as he landed on a boat-mounted refueling platform, his...

French 'flying man' fails to cross Channel on jet-powered hoverboard

A French inventor failed in his attempt on Thursday to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard when he missed a refueling platform mounted on a boat, a member of his technical team...

Frenchman fails in attempt to cross English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard

A French inventor failed in his attempt on Thursday to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard when he missed a landing platform mounted on a boat as he tried to land midway for...

Summertime, and the living is easy for Santas in Copenhagen

Being Santa Claus is an all-year job if you ask the 150 Santas from around the world who have left Rudolph and the elves at home to make early Christmas preparations at their annual meet in Denmark.

Two severely-disabled candidates win seats in Japan upper house vote

Two wheelchair-bound candidates won seats in Japan's upper house vote on Sunday, media projections showed, a sign of changing attitudes towards disabled people in a country where they have long been...

Bosnia buries 86 victims of 1992-95 war recovered from grisly ravine

Thousands of relatives from Bosnia and across Europe gathered in the village of Hambarine for the burial of 86 Bosniak Muslims on Saturday, 27 years after they were killed and dumped in a ravine in...

Descendent of Arab musical legend brings nostalgia to Lebanese festival

Lebanon's traditional summer festivals harked back to the Arab world's musical past this year, highlighted by a performance by the great-granddaughter of the legendary 1930s diva Asmahan in a...