As the mercury outside plunges to - 10C on an ice-cold Monday afternoon, the dance floor inside Kukilgwan Palace is packed with gray-haired Korean couples moving to the rhythms of high-volume disco.
When Lance Macon started his real estate consulting firm, he did not want a traditional office. But he wasn't going to work out of his home or a coffee shop either.
Inside a vintage-style Cypriot cafe, 18-year-old Ibrahima Yonga recounts to a stranger how he escaped the Boko Haram group in Cameroon and spent months at sea to reach Europe.
When they were born premature in 1912, doctors gave Paulette and Simone the slimmest chance of survival. But 104 years later, the French twins say there's a simple secret to their longevity: sticking together.
Spurned for decades by Western powers, Cuba is now taking an ever bigger role in international relations.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Saturday launched a door-to-door "war" on mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus, vowing they will not jeopardize the Rio Olympics in August.
The sudden death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia opened a new and incendiary front in the already red-hot 2016 presidential race, one that promises to divide Democrats and Republicans and, perhaps, Republicans from themselves.
Somalia's extremist rebels, al-Shabab, said on Saturday they carried out the bombing of a commercial passenger jet earlier this month that blew a hole in the fuselage, sucking out the suspected bomber and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
After 700 years, what remains is more than just remains
Underwater sightseeing in a glass submarine, shopping with a chef for dinner ingredients and volunteering with locals: These are some of the new options this season for cruise passengers.
From Ming to Alice, publisher creates works of art for domestic readers
Pop-up and other special-effect books were first created in the 13th century by academics in Britain to illustrate scientific knowledge, said Guan Zhongping, a Beijing-based specialty book collector.
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