SEOUL - She shops for fish for her family and is not afraid to go out in public in her slippers without a fancy hairdo, but one thing sets "Happy Mrs Jung-sook" apart from other South Korean housewives.
TOKYO - Controversial legislation to criminalize the planning of serious crimes was enacted by Japan's parliament on Thursday despite vociferous calls from opposition parties and the public.
HANOI - Wearing pajamas and lying on her bed at her home in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, 19-year-old Nguyen Nhu Van wasn't planning to sleep anytime soon on Wednesday, despite it being midnight.
LOS ANGELES - Adonna Ebrahimi is stretched out on her yoga mat, struggling to maintain a cobra pose - and her composure - as a couple of baby goats do a balancing act on her back.
NEW YORK - In his eight years leading the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert has witnessed the power of music to connect cultures - and watched as political strife consumes much of the world.
NEW DELHI - India's Health Ministry has launched a nationwide campaign to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, officials said on Thursday.
HAVANA - Rumors have been hovering in the streets of Havana in the past few days about a possible rollback in the United States' policy toward the Caribbean island, reversing the historic detente initiated in 2014 by former president Barack Obama.
MECHELEN, Belgium - The painstaking job of restoring some of the world's finest ancient tapestries, stitch by stitch, is not for the highly strung or restless.
NEW YORK - Rapper turned businessman Diddy was the world's top-paid celebrity in the past year, edging out closest competitor Beyonce, Forbes said in its annual list on Monday.
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - Typewriter enthusiasts gather at an Albuquerque restaurant to experiment with vintage Smith Coronas. Fans in Boston kneel in a city square and type stories about their lives during a pro-immigration demonstration. A new documentary on typewriters featuring Tom Hanks and musician John Mayer is set for release this summer.
WASHINGTON - More than 2 billion children and adults, or one third of the world's population, are now overweight or obese, according to a new study released on Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO - They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s US orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an enduring legacy.
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