Rapid melt of two glaciers ends scenic hikes onto them

New Zealand is renowned for its wondrous scenery, and among the country's top tourist attractions are two glaciers that are both stunning and unusual because they snake down from the mountains to a temperate rain forest, making them easy for people to walk up to and view.

One dead, 4 police wounded in raid linked to Paris attacks

Belgian and French police launched a vast manhunt for suspects late on Tuesday after a Kalashnikov-wielding assailant was killed and four officers were wounded during an anti-terror operation in Brussels linked to the Paris attacks.

Bomb on bus kills 16 govt employees

At least 16 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a bomb blew up inside a bus in Peshawar, the main city of Pakistan's insurgency-wracked northwest, officials said, with the toll expected to rise.

Obama makes sweeping trade, travel changes

United States President Barack Obama sent an unmistakable message to the nation on Tuesday ahead of his historic trip to Havana: Cuba is open for business.

Trump knocks Rubio out, party in chaos

US Republican front-runner Donald Trump swept three states and drove rival Marco Rubio out of the White House race, but the New York billionaire's loss in the crucial state of Ohio wrought more chaos for a party deeply fractured by his candidacy.

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'Genius girl' wins world championship

The 22-year-old Chinese chess star Hou Yifan has been crowned the new world champion on Monday after winning the Women World Chess Championship final match, held in Ukraine's western city of Lviv.

Computer wins final game against Go master

The Google supercomputer AlphaGo won the final game of its five-match challenge against South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol on Tuesday, to take the series 4-1.

U Htin Kyaw of ruling party elected president

U Htin Kyaw from Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the presidential election on Tuesday through a secret ballot, thus becoming the country's new president for the next five-year term.

Herders suffer as cattle trade shut to fight Boko Haram

A Nigerian government push to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency has shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war.

Horse-sized relative shows how T. rex became 'king of dinosaurs'

A newly discovered cousin of the T. rex may explain how the legendary dinosaur leapt in size to become undisputed king of the food chain, scientists said on Monday.

Men embrace femininity, take comfort in 'genderless' clothing

No stranger to barrettes, bows and beauty products, Japanese Instagram icon and model Genking is a proud flag bearer for "genderless" fashion in which young men adopt unequivocally feminine styles and challenge traditional norms.