Tucked in the back corner of a construction site for a new dog shelter in eastern Istanbul lies a freshly dug, unmarked grave — the first in the new "Traitors' Cemetery," created specifically to hold the bodies of coup plotters who died in the July 15 abortive putsch.
Pope Francis, visiting a shrine cherished by Poles, praised native son St. John Paul II on Thursday as a "meek and powerful" herald of mercy, and honored the countless "ordinary yet remarkable people" in Poland who held firm to their Catholic faith throughout adversity in the former Communist nation.
Forest officials say they have rescued six rhino calves from being washed away by flood waters that have swamped a national park in India's remote northeastern state of Assam.
Croatia's state news agency says police have arrested a German tourist who was vacationing on the country's Adriatic coast and is wanted by Turkey on terrorism charges.
A couple in Spain have started an online petition after registry officials refused to let them call their newborn son "Wolf." The father, Nako Javierre, says in a letter accompanying the petition that he and his wife Maria decided on the name because of "our love for this animal." But he says the Fuenlabrada registry office in Madrid earlier this month refused to accept the name because it could be "offensive" for their son.
French energy company EDF is due to decide whether to go ahead with a major nuclear power plant project in southwest England that some consider too costly.
Portuguese police say they seized about 2 metric tons (2.2 tons) of Moroccan hashish from a boat and arrested a Spaniard during a night-time operation on the country's southern coast.
Cambodia's self-exiled opposition leader has been fined for defaming a senior member of the country's ruling party, adding to legal woes hurting his party's ability to operate.
The Philippine president has threatened to withdraw a ceasefire order he gave three days ago after suspected communist rebels killed a government militiaman and wounded four others in an attack.
The lawyer for a popular Congolese musician says he has spent two nights in jail in Kinshasa under provisional arrest after being accused of assaulting a female member of his band.
The Russian prime minister has accepted the resignation of the head of the customs agency, several days after investigators searched his home and founds hundreds of thousand dollars stashed in shoe boxes.
