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A man nicknamed “Rambo” after he disarmed four police officers at gunpoint and disappeared in Germany's Black Forest has been captured following a five-day manhunt.

Days of torrential rainfall and expectations for further flooding led China to raise its flood alert level on one river to the second-highest level on Sunday as a dam was blasted to release surging waters.

At least 14 people have died in the latest round of seasonal rains and flooding in southern China, as soldiers and workers built makeshift barriers with sandbags and rocks Saturday to keep the Yangtze River and its tributaries at bay.

A fire ripped through the famed Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of the western French city of Nantes Saturday morning and authorities are investigating the incident as a criminal act. 

International investigators in Paris will finally be able to review the black box of a downed Ukrainian passenger jet that was shot out of the sky by Iran, who misidentified the plane as an incoming missile. 

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani estimated that up to 25 million people in the country have been infected with coronavirus but despite this tally and urging from Rouhani himself to take precautions to protect against the virus' spread, the country will not reimpose lockdown restrictions. 

China has dismissed the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls the United Nations Security Council to extend the Iranian arms embargo, citing concerns that the Iranian regime will become an arms dealer – the suppliers being Russia and China.

Israeli officials hoping to halt a rise in coronavirus cases have announced sweeping new restrictions Friday ranging from who can use gyms to which businesses can stay open on weekends. 

The chairman of a South Korean church linked to a large cluster of the country's coronavirus cases was questioned for hours on Friday.

A number of homes in Australia are now precariously teetering on the edge of a cliff following days of massive waves lashing into its coastline. 

The attack comes at a time of a higher-than-usual number of fatal attacks around the country.

A German Jewish World War II veteran who has led an extraordinary life -- surviving a Nazi assassination attempt, plane crash, and breast cancer -- can now add another accomplishment, defeating coronavirus months before she turns 100.

Here's a selection of the most amazing images captured around the world in the past seven days. Enjoy!

As the world grapples with COVID-19's furious spread, a museum in the Dutch city of Leiden opened an exhibition on contagious diseases after a long delay caused by the pandemic.

The United Nations is set to launch a postage stamp initiative Friday that will help raise funds for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) effort to assist countries struggling from the coronavirus pandemic.

Brazil’s federal health ministry announced Thursday evening that the country has surpassed 2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus with over 76,000 deaths.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for the second time with the coronavirus Wednesday, a week after he first announced he was positive for COVID-19.

American NASA scientist Serkan Golge, 40, returned to his Texas, home earlier this month after years in a Turkish prison cell in what U.S. officials had long deemed an example of Ankara taking political prisoners.

A town in the Netherlands cut longstanding ties with its twin across the border in Poland, which recently established itself as an official “gay-free zone.”

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday banned setting agricultural and forest fires as the country enters the dry season at a moment when the government faces pressure from local and foreign companies to show greater commitment to environmental protection.