Ailsa Chang talks to Elisabeth Koek of the Norwegian Refugee Council, a group that's been receiving families who escaped the Iraqi city. More than 500 families have made it to displacement camps.
A French company and an Egyptian agency say the ship Laplace has picked up signals that appear to belong to a flight recorder from EgyptAir MS804, which crashed into the Mediterranean last month.
Thai authorities raided the temple, which operated as a zoo, after it was accused of illegal wildlife trafficking. Parks officials have been moving the temple's adult tigers to shelters elsewhere.
Switzerland's Gotthard Base Tunnel stretches for more than 35 miles and runs a mile and a half deep under a mountain range at some points. The engineering feat was inaugurated with modern dance.
NATO has a missile-defense base in Romania and broke ground for a second in Poland. Russia says it's another example of NATO moving threatening weapons near its border area of Kaliningrad.
Rio de Janeiro made a big push to provide security in its shantytowns. But some, which were touted as models, are again plagued by gang violence that has terrified residents.
Angelina Jolie was just appointed a professor for the coming semester at the London School of Economics. The development world is having a pro-con debate.
The country's largest beer producer, Empresas Polar, halted operations because the government restricted access to imported barley. But the president has pinned the entire food crisis on Polar.
A social entrepreneur in Brussels is encouraging computer geeks in the Molenbeek neighborhood to change the district's reputation from a hotbed of terrorism to a source of technical innovation — and the results so far have been remarkable.