Over the past year or so, drinking a cup of tea at leisure has become a fashion in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and a number of teahouses have sprung up around the capital city of Pyongyang.
Ninety-two-year-old Johanna beams at the 20-year-old man stepping into her room - not a visiting grandson, but rather a housemate at her retirement home.
Tucked away between rolling hills dotted with sheep and winding roads taking wine lovers to vineyards is a nondescript, white warehouse with small, square windows.
Three months after the war in Gaza, Sadeeqa Naseer still lives in a bomb site. Airstrikes turned the two upper floors of her three-story apartment building in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun into a rubble-strewn ruin.
Official campaigning for Japan's general election kicked off on Tuesday, with more than 1,180 candidates running for the 475-seat House of Representatives, or lower house, in the country's bicameral parliament.
Hundreds of candidates fanned out across Japan on Tuesday, the first official day of campaigning for a national election that could give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a mandate for four more years.
The World Bank said on Tuesday that the fallout from the deadly Ebola pandemic will push Guinea and Sierra Leone into recession next year.
South Korean officials expressed fear on Tuesday of a huge death toll after rescuers failed to find any of the more than 50 fishermen missing after their ship sank amid high waves in the freezing waters of the western Bering Sea on Monday.
Al Shabaab militants killed at least 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeastern Kenya on Tuesday, beheading at least two of them in revenge for Kenyan military action against the group in neighboring Somalia.
Two months ago, the World Health Organization launched an ambitious plan to stop the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, aiming to isolate 70 percent of the sick and safely bury 70 percent of the victims in the three hardest-hit countries - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - by Monday.
Black Friday fatigue is setting in.
It's a robot unlike any other, inspired by the world's fastest land animal and controlled by video game technology.
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