Among sweeping vistas of snow-capped mountains, virgin Himalayan forest and terraced meadows sits the office of Shangrila Farm, launched by New Yorker Sahra Malik and her sister Alia in 2008.
There are fears about China's growth prospects given the recent bad news about weak credit demand, high real interest rates and tight liquidity. But we at Standard Chartered see three reasons for at least some optimism:
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate cease-fire in Yemen as he began the hunt for a new peace envoy to the war-torn country, where al-Qaida is expanding its territory.
An Australian court fined two French tourists A$4,000 ($3,100) each on Friday for animal cruelty after they burned a quokka, a small native marsupial, on an island off the west coast.
The SpaceX supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Friday morning, delivering the world's first espresso machine designed exclusively for astronauts.
Millions of Jakarta commuters will have to struggle through the world's most congested traffic for almost another decade, authorities believe, and they may have to wait even longer if $4 billion worth of new railway projects fail to work out as planned.
Grieving relatives joined political and religious leaders on Friday for a somber German state memorial service for the 150 victims of last month's Germanwings crash in the French Alps.
Turkish Airlines' CEO said pilots may not be as prone to destructive behavior like that of the Germanwings pilot believed to have intentionally crashed a flight last month - if only they get married.
Several hundred US paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine to train its forces fighting rebels in the east, the US army confirmed on Friday, a move that Moscow warned could "destabilize" the war-torn ex-Soviet republic.
Cuba has agreed to work on resolving the cases of United States' fugitives on the island as part of the effort to normalize relations between the two nations, US President Barack Obama told lawmakers when he made the case for removing the former Cold War foe from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The postal carrier charged on Thursday with two US federal crimes for steering his small helicopter-like gyrocopter through protected Washington airspace "literally flew under the radar" to the lawn of the Capitol building that houses Congress, US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said as lawmakers raised alarms about security risks.
As the setting sun casts an orange glow over the Sao Paulo slum of Paraisopolis, a dozen aspiring models sporting towering heels strut up and down an improvised catwalk.
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