Frankfurt airport opened a new terminal, just a few years late and a billion euros over budget, with officials hailing a success in a country notorious for troubled infrastructure projects.
A benefit concert was held in tribute to the victims of a fire on New Year's Day that killed 41 people in an upscale Swiss ski resort, nearly four months on from the tragedy.
Tourists flocked to an iconic Rio de Janeiro viewpoint on Tuesday, a day after a gunfight between police and drug gangs in a nearby favela trapped over 200 people on the hilltop.
Prosecutors in the rape retrial of disgraced US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told how he wielded his power to prey on then-aspiring actress Jessica Mann.