President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged Turkish women to have at least three children, saying a woman's life was "incomplete" if she failed to have offspring.

A Swedish nurse who converted to Catholicism and helped dozens of Jews during the Holocaust was made a saint on Sunday, Sweden's first in six centuries.

Africa's best barista doesn't drink coffee, nor even really like it, yet two-time Kenyan champ Martin Shabaya won the Africa round and next month competes at the World Barista Championships.

Shabaya, 26, has only been pouring coffee for five years but his success is indicative of a country that –- unlike him –- is learning to love coffee.

Domes inspired by the royal palaces of India rise from a new Bollywood theme park under construction in Dubai, part of a drive to lure millions more tourists to the emirate.

It already boasts opulent shopping malls and numerous luxury resorts, but the Gulf city-state has even grander ambitions and the film industry is center stage.

It has already been dubbed an "adult Disneyland" and "the amusement park of our dreams" by U.S. college students.

But the Cite du Vin -- a new museum in the French city of Bordeaux dedicated to the history of wine -- is not quite the palace of bacchanalian revels of online fantasy.

Tens of thousands of homosexuals, transgender people, gay activists and sympathizers thronged the streets of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday for the annual Gay Pride parade.

The trappings of a dream Paris holiday -- a visit to the Louvre, cruising the Seine under the twinkling lights of the Eiffel Tower -- have been drowned under torrential rainfall this week.

The book Beirut at dawn. A bus leaves the Charles Helou station en route to Damascus. Seven passengers are on board, one of whom is a prominent Lebanese politician. Before crossing the border, the bus is accosted and derailed. All seven passengers are gunned down. A botanist studying a rare occurrence of acacias nearby witnesses the horror.

While the nation around him plunges into conspiracy theories and chaos, the botanist realizes he holds the only clue to the mystery: his injured Acacia. This sends him on a quest for answers, through a minefield of national fears and family secrets, deep into a private underworld.

A plan to replace Paris' iconic green domed newspaper kiosks with modernist "sardine can" mini-shops has sparked uproar, with more than 30,000 people signing a petition to save the ornate originals.

Heritage groups and architectural experts have reacted with fury to mayor Anne Hidalgo's push to do away with the historic design, a fixture on the streets of French capital since the 1860s.

Each time he hears of the latest deadly machete attack, Ashraful Islam can't help but think of his father's gruesome murder and fear his fellow Sufi Muslims will never be safe again in Bangladesh.

"The killings are not declining, they're getting worse. And every one reminds me what happened to my father," said the 30-year-old medical student.