Over 10,000 pairs of shoes on the Place de la Republique replace marchers who were set to take part in a climate cancelled protest as activists take to the streets around the globe. The Paris march was expected to bring 200,000 people onto the city's streets but was forbidden by French authorities in light of security concerns.

Mais parmi eux des centaines d'activistes, visages masqués, qui voulaient en découdre avec les forces de l'ordre ont pris les objets du mémorial et les ont utilisés comme projectiles en direction des policiers qui ont répondu par des jets de gaz lacrymogènes.

The coast of southern Chile has become a grave for 337 sei whales that were found beached in what scientists say is one of the biggest whale strandings ever recorded. Biologist Vreni Haussermann told the Associated Press on Tuesday that she made the discovery along with other scientists in June during an observation flight over fjords in Chile's southern Patagonia region.

While many Beijing residents are staying indoors to escape the cloud of heavy pollution hanging over the city, one man with a vacuum cleaner has been exposing himself to the toxic air four hours a day, for 100 days in a row. Nor, he isn't hoping the Air Quality Index will improve thanks to his industrial-strength...