Five state-owned Chinese companies to delist from New York Stock Exchange

Five state-owned Chinese companies, including the country's leading energy and chemical company, have chosen to delist from the New York Stock Exchange by the end of August.


'Anti-memorials' honor Indian Partition's unseen victims, 75 years on

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that split a nation. For 15 years, she has made artworks based on the partition of British India into an independent India and Pakistan in 1947, as well as the bloody nationalist conflict that followed in East Pakistan, which cleaved off to become Bangladesh in 1971.


State media: 11 killed, including 2 children, in Montenegro gun attack

At least 11 people were killed, including two children, in a deadly mass shooting in Montenegro's southern city of Cetinje on Friday, according to state media RTCG.


In the foothills of the Patagonian Andes, only one in five of puma's guanaco hunts are successful. The Original Series "Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.


Search and rescue efforts are ongoing for several missing people as China's Shanxi province was hit by record rainfall, according to Chinese state media CCTV.



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Why a hostage-taker in Lebanon was hailed as a national hero

A dramatic series of events unfolded on a bustling street in Beirut on Thursday when an armed man barged into a bank and held employees and customers hostage. He wasn't trying to rob the bank -- he was demanding his own money back.


The Rhine river is drying up, making it hard for cargo ships to travel

Germany's Rhine river is getting too dry, snarling supply chains and creating more problems for its struggling economy.


It's not yet clear what caused blasts at a Crimea air base. But analysts say Russia suffered a significant loss

When a series of explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea on Tuesday, sending Russian vacationers fleeing from nearby beaches, it was clearly an embarrassment for Moscow. Western officials and analysts have since offered competing explanations about the cause.