The English-speaking receptionist is a vicious-looking dinosaur, and the one speaking Japanese is a female humanoid with blinking lashes. "If you want to check in, push one," the dinosaur says.
Britain's competition regulator has found that some customers are being misled by the country's embattled supermarkets and ordered the retailers to provide greater clarity on their promotional offers.
During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Muslims are called on to reflect on their faith as they conduct their daily fast. This past month, some clerics and scholars reflected on ways to reform the religious discourse in Islam to keep up with modern-day challenges and oppose extremism.
Johnny Depp's wife, Amber Heard, has been charged with illegally bringing the couple's dogs to Australia - an incident that captured global attention after the nation's agriculture minister angrily ordered the animals to get out of the country or face death.
An Australian schoolboy who discovered a new species of jellyfish in a Queensland canal has had the tentacled creature named in his honor, scientists said.
Pakistan's army said on Thursday that Indian troops had killed at least four civilians in the latest cease fire violation in the disputed Kashmir region.
Mankind's first close-up look at Pluto did not disappoint on Wednesday: The pictures showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and chasms on its largest moon, Charon, that appear six times deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Egypt's Cabinet has amended a draft counterterrorism law so that journalists would be fined, rather than jailed, for contradicting the authorities' version of any terrorist attack, the state news agency reported.
Israel is responsible for the 2008 murder of a top security aide of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to secret US intelligence files.
Swiss authorities said one of the seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich as part of a US corruption probe has been extradited to the United States.
Greece's troubled left-wing government was seeking urgent relief from European lenders on Thursday, after it pushed a harsh austerity package through Parliament, triggering a revolt in the governing party and violent demonstrations in central Athens.
US President Barack Obama launched an aggressive and detailed defense of a landmark Iranian nuclear accord, rejecting the idea that it leaves Teheran on the brink of a bomb and arguing the only alternative to the diplomatic deal is war.
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