Liverpool’s Sea Odyssey street theatre event was the “most successful event in the city’s history”, says Mayor Joe Anderson.

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Giants ‘generated £32m for city’

The monkey population of Delhi has grown large and aggressive, overwhelming the city’s efforts to control it, but Hindu tradition calls for feeding the monkeys twice a week.

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Fed by Indians, Monkeys Overwhelm Delhi

Medellín, Colombia, once famed for murder and cocaine, is now drawing notice for its ambitious urban projects, many aimed at easing life in the city’s slums.

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Architecture Review: Fighting Crime With Architecture in Medellín, Colombia

Syrian activists report thousands at protests in the city of Aleppo, which has so far largely stayed loyal to the president since the uprising began.

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Syria protests ‘grip Aleppo city’

A notorious Belfast prison that held IRA inmates during the worst of the city’s sectarian troubles is to be transformed into a whiskey distillery.

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VIDEO: From prison to Belfast distillery

In the wake of a huge trading loss at JPMorgan Chase, some New York City Council members want the city to begin weighing the socially responsibility of various banks when choosing which ones to do business with.

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Council to Ask Banks to Describe Efforts to Aid Poor Areas

Four explosions rock the city of Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine, injuring at least 27 people.

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Blasts injure 27 in east Ukraine

A defense attorney says a man facing murder and hate crime charges in a Tulsa shooting spree that killed three people and terrorized the city’s black community wasn’t motivated by race.

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Attorney: Tulsa Suspect Not Motivated by Race

There’s new momentum to relax federal building-height limits in the District, reopening decades-old debates about the look, feel and character of the city as well as whether the restrictions stifle economic growth. Read full article > >

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Gray, Issa consider relaxing D.C. building height limits

The operation to rescue nine men trapped underground in a mine near the city of Ica in the south of Peru could take days, the government has said.

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Peru mine rescue ‘may take days’

Gunman Mohamed Merah is buried in a cemetery near the French city of Toulouse, hours after the city’s mayor had called for a delay.

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Gunman funeral held near Toulouse

An elephant which escaped from a circus in Ireland has been re-captured in Cork but not before she went walkabout in the city centre.

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VIDEO: Elephant in escape bid from circus

With time running out on the city’s dismal finances and tensions bubbling over, representatives from the state and the city have been meeting around the clock.

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Governor Rick Snyder Sees Hope for a Deal With Detroit

Leung Chun-ying, 57, won 689 of the 1,132 votes cast by members of the city’s Election Committee. He quickly tried to allay fears that he would restrict civil liberties in the former British colony.

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Hong Kong, Divided Over Future, Gets a New Leader

A group of electors in Hong Kong choose self-made businessman CY Leung as the city’s new leader, after an unusually turbulent campaign.

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Leung wins Hong Kong’s election