Stepping through the piles of books and fireproof document cases that line his overflowing three-storey home library, Brazilian collector Pedro Correa do Lago is the first to admit his life's passion is a bit crazy.. "I was a bit nervous -- a little unknown Brazilian writing a book on Proust," he says.
At a table on a street corner in Oruro in western Bolivia, night owls get ready to tuck into a favorite dish touted as a hangover cure: roasted lamb's head.. On public holidays, such as the Oruro carnival, Cuba said they can sell up to 200 roasted heads, at the equivalent of around $7 each.
Japan's coastguard said Monday it was searching for seven people missing after their boat capsized and was spotted in waters off the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islets, which are also claimed by China.. Nakao said Japanese authorities were coordinating with their counterparts in Taiwan, which also lays claim to the Senkaku islets.
Supporters of the late leftist president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela paid tribute to him and his legacy Sunday on the 10th anniversary of his death.. Chavez ruled Venezuela from 1999 until his death from cancer in 2013.
Syria's foreign ministry on Sunday condemned a surprise visit by the United States' top military officer to an army base in the Kurdish-held northeast, dubbing it "illegal", state media said.. Official news agency SANA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying "Syria strongly condemns the illegal visit of the American chairman of the chiefs of staff to an illegal American military base in northeast Syria."
Leaders from the world's poorest nations poured out their disappointment and bitterness at a UN summit on Sunday over the treatment of their countries by richer counterparts.. Leaders of the world's major economies have been markedly absent from debate, which will last five days, on the turmoil in poor nations.
Before the Turkish earthquake, Abdullah Senel had nerves of steel.. In Kahramanmaras, a Turkish city near the quake's epicentre, survivors remain haunted by the trauma one month on.
Put off by the Estonian government's hawkish stance on Russia, many Russian speakers are expected to stay away from elections on Sunday even though they oppose the war in Ukraine.. Russian speakers, who make up a quarter of the population, are also concerned about the support of almost all the main parties for a new law for Estonian-only education in schools.
Estonians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament in a vote that could bolster far-right nationalists, who have campaigned on opposing further arms deliveries to Ukraine. . Estonia, a country of 1.3 million people bordering Russia, has a unicameral parliament with 101 seats, all at stake in Sunday's vote.
A top UN official has warned that "urgent" measures are needed to help 52 countries facing debt repayment problems that put some at risk of default.. And they face growing pressure to invest in renewable energy and combating climate change, the UN official added.
