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.
White-clad followers of a Bulgarian theologian welcomed their "spiritual new year" with an annual dance performed in concentric circles high in the mountains. Believers say the ritual helps them connect to nature and one another.
Yakutia in northeastern Siberia is home to huge diamond deposits where the precious stones are mined in massive pits which have been dug deep into the permafrost. The Mir mine in Mirny is 525 meters deep and one of the biggest man-made holes in the world.
Iran is set to allow women to attend men's soccer matches, lifting a decades-long ban following pressure from FIFA. But women will still not be given completely free access to stadiums, with Iranian officials saying there would be separate entrances and seating areas.
At a farm near St. Petersburg, 18 residents with intellectual disabilities share their daily work, meals, and leisure time. It's part of a program that provides educational and employment support to people with special needs, and it offers a different model of care from Russian institutions.
At a festival in rural Serbia, retired construction worker Zoran Lazarevic has been crowned the mustache king with white whiskers measuring 140 centimeters.
Pakistan is fighting a rising tide of plastic waste, including an estimated 55 billion plastic bags each year. The capital, Islamabad, is implementing a ban on single-use bags. But other Pakistani districts have had little success in enforcing similar measures.
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