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Repeated sightings of what some believed was a large cat near Berlin had prompted concern. The authorities later said that a search did not turn up what they were expecting.

Sailors remained on guard at the French settlement after violence in which 22 Chinese people were killed and 50 others wounded.

A court in Rome said it had decided to acquit a janitor accused of improperly touching a student in part because the episode lasted “a handful of seconds” and took place in a public area in front of other students.

But that oversimplifies a complex global situation, others say, with a weakened Russia and with China facing serious problems of its own.

Strips of sharp metal pins are meant to keep birds away from buildings. Some birds are stealing them to build their nests.

Unusually heavy rain on the mountainous island of Kyushu has killed at least six people and left three others missing.

A cylinder with a type of gas often linked to illegal mining was found in a shack at an encampment near the city of Boksburg, an official said.

In one of the deadliest periods in years in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, young Palestinians drawn into the struggle against Israel are writing farewell messages to their loved ones.

Since their arrest at a derelict arms factory in Albania that they said they were exploring to document in pictures, the two Russians and a Ukrainian have been unable to leave the country.

The show offers a depiction of work that’s turbulent, and, in its own way, enviable.