MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - US pop star Ariana Grande announced on Tuesday she would return to Manchester to headline a star-studded benefit concert for the victims of the deadly attack on her show last week.
SEMARANG, Indonesia - An Indonesian hamlet dubbed "the rainbow village" after being given a makeover in a kaleidoscope of colors is attracting hordes of visitors and has become an internet sensation.
WASHINGTON - She started her career in the shadows working for the CIA, but a historian at a prestigious Washington museum has been thrust into the limelight after the US media dubbed her job researching beer the "coolest in the world."
SYDNEY - Faceless fish and other weird and wonderful creatures, many of them new species, have been hauled up from the deep waters off Australia during a scientific voyage studying parts of the ocean never explored before.
NAIROBI - A railway built by the British government to tighten control over its African colony eventually played a part in ending its rule. This is one oddity Kenya's meter gauge railway has left for historians.
NEW YORK - Peacekeepers across the world are having to cope with increasingly dangerous environments and need help to do their work, according to the head of the United Nations.
DAMASCUS - The sound of the blast in Syria's capital Damascus brought worried residents running, but rather than carnage they found a crew filming one of the country's famed television drama series.
BRUSSELS - Burger King is in trouble with Belgium's monarchy over an advertising campaign asking Belgians to vote online to "crown" the global fast-food giant the true ruler of the country where the United States brand will launch next month.
TOKYO - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is challenging Japan's old-boy network in the capital, where she thrashed a ruling party rival to win her post and now aims to lead reform-minded candidates to victory in a citywide July election.
At the age of 6, Sophie Chen biked 2,100 km along the ancient Silk Road from Xi'an in Shaanxi province to Turpan in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Kevin Lin has been the lead British government interpreter for conversations in Mandarin and English since the 1990s and translated discussions between Queen Elizabeth II and President Xi Jinping when China's president visited the United Kingdom in 2015.
Can humans think in their dreams? Zhang Tianwei has no doubts about the answer. "Yes, I do."
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