Foreign officials, militia members and religious leaders on Friday visited the site where the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is lying in state, beginning nearly a week of events to mourn and bury Iran’s former supreme leader.

Anastasiia Berezovska, a 39-year-old Ukrainian, tried to kill three people with a parcel bomb on Monday, the authorities said. She remained on the run.

The overloaded bus was carrying 48 passengers on a notoriously hazardous highway linking two provincial capitals.

Cape Verde, a tiny African archipelago, was thrilled to qualify for the World Cup, let alone take on the defending champions. But its fans feel confident.

From pubs open until dawn to abruptly declared national holidays, it seems regulations everywhere are bending to accommodate the tournament.

Foreign dignitaries from China, Russia, Pakistan and elsewhere are set to pay respects to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday as days of ceremonies get underway.

And why the most patriotic approach to the Reflecting Pool may be to let the algae take over.

A series of unlucky factors — two earthquakes in rapid succession, a fault that ruptured toward Caracas, soft ground and the shallow depth of the earthquake — combined to make the Venezuela earthquakes unusually deadly.

“Are we in the Soviet Union now?” said one Russian, stunned and frustrated by long lwaits at the pumps.

Preservation experts say the move to develop the site reflects a tension in Germany between the need to preserve historically significant monuments and the need to build and modernize.