Lawson is now fighting off a budgetary collapse of this high desert town of 2, 100, where the paved and gravel roads have no traffic signals, only stop signs -- and even those are so faded from the sun that the village would like to replace them if it had the money.

CNN: On the border: Guns, drugs -- and a betrayal of trust

In a white-walled village where the sun made me squint, I went to see a doctor.

BBC: Meeting the king of simmering Bahrain

Like so many other senior citizens, he spends his days at a retirement village in a Sun Belt state, keeping himself busy with painting and reflecting on a long and successful career.

NPR: Cheeta, Screen Star for the Ages

Ordinary people, who regarded Mr Tohra as the last among a vanishing breed of simple and fiercely honest politicians, stood silently in the blistering sun around the common cremation grounds at Village Tohra.

BBC: Gurcharan Singh Tohra

Every Wednesday night, after the sun kisses the Pacific Ocean goodnight, the Chamorro Village in Hagatna comes alive.

BBC: Guam: The best place you never considered going to

Outside of festival times, the quiet village offers a dose of understated Algarvian charm: sun-baked white houses feature Moorish design details, such as coloured bars around the doorways, while the petite central square is flanked by a lovely 16th-century church and a tiny cafe selling delicious homemade pastries, cakes and ice cream.

BBC: The other side of the Algarve

The activists had said they wanted to build a village on the site, calling it Bab al-Shams (Gateway to the Sun), after a famous novel about Palestinian history.

BBC: Israel evicts tent protesters at West Bank E1 settlement

In Eber, a village of about 1, 000 people, 15 people were crushed to death in houses made of sun-dried mud bricks and wood.

CNN: Turkish quake victims brave cold