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Saudi Arabia's King Salman held his first-ever cabinet meeting in Neom, a planned $500 billion futuristic city that will host more robots than people in a desolate peninsula in the kingdom's northwest.

The sci-fi city on the Red Sea coast is designed to represent Saudi Arabia's efforts to transform itself away from oil. The 82-year-old monarch's

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Norman was put in a large, state-of-the-art enclosure with other kangaroos but was clearly highly strung

Melbourne: 

A distressed kangaroo leapt over a 2.2 metre (7.2 feet) wall at a shelter on Tuesday and escaped into a forest after having been rescued from a home he had crashed into in the southern Australian city of Melbourne two days earlier.

The

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Michael Graczyk saw someone die for the first time in March 1984. Graczyk, a reporter with the Associated Press, walked into a Texas prison to watch the execution of James David Autry, who had been sentenced to death for killing a convenience store clerk four years earlier.

Graczyk watched as Autry - a 29-year-old known as "Cowboy" who had been

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Frank Gonzalez has quietly operated his auto repair shop here since 1980 (Representational)

Homestead, Florida: 

Frank Gonzalez has quietly operated his auto repair shop here since 1980. He employs his son and 13 others, working on cars for customers who have come to them for decades.

"We've never had any trouble," said Gonzalez, 62.

That is, until

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Dishing out burgers and fries, "One Way Burger" is like any other trendy food truck (AFP)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: 

Dishing out burgers and fries slathered with melted cheese, "One Way Burger" is like any other trendy food truck in Riyadh. But it offers something rare - the cook behind the sizzling hot grill is a Saudi.

In the once tax-free petro-state,

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Koriyama, Japan: 

The pumpkin is diced, the chicken carved and the eggs beaten into an omelette, but the people preparing the food are not chefs -- they are scientists testing produce from Japan's Fukushima region.

Seven years after the March 2011 nuclear disaster caused by a devastating tsunami, rigorous testing shows no radioactive threat from

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