The anti-secrecy campaign group WikiLeaks published an initial tranche of documents on Wednesday it said were from the personal e-mail account of CIA director John Brennan.
A decade after retiring from a life of crime, Satoru Takegaki now spends his days helping other ex-gangsters find regular jobs and adjust to life outside Japan's notorious yakuza mob.
The German government said on Wednesday that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the Germans, after Israel's prime minister sparked controversy before a visit to Berlin by saying a Muslim elder had convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate Jews.
The White House issued a scathing attack on Moscow's "red carpet" welcome for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, accusing Russian government of impeding progress toward a political transition.
According to a recent study by Hilton Worldwide, more than two-thirds of professionals, ranging from millennials to seniors aged over 65, prefer meeting in person over any other collaboration method.
The US-based Trump Hotel Collection, presided over by internationally renowned developer Donald Trump and his three adult children, is tapping into the Asian market with the recent announcements of two resort properties being developed in the area.
When Canadian painter Annie Pelletier talked to Vincent Billiard, the general manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin, about exhibiting her art at the property, he showed her four large empty walls.
A very special group of visitors arrived at Ayutthaya, 80 kilometers north of Bangkok, on Sept 27. Like tourists who arrive here from the world over, the group stopped by to admire the mottled, bell-shaped towers punctuating the crumbling red brick walls of the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Siam, destroyed 248 years ago by the Burmese army. Next each of them pulled out a piece of xuan paper, a set of brushes and bottles of ink and color and got to work.
Entering the Tibet autonomous region everything slows down as oxygen levels decrease, allowing people to enjoy the region's fantastic natural beauty and relaxed atmosphere.
Ye Xingchang likes to keep busy and was one of the thousands of volunteers for the parade held in Beijing last month to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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