United to compensate fliers

CHICAGO - United Airlines sought to quell the uproar over a man being dragged off a plane by announcing on Tuesday that it would no longer ask police to remove passengers from full flights and would compensate customers who were on the flight when the man was removed.

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Thai teachers get schooled in Mandarin

BANGKOK - Teachers in Thailand's capital are learning Mandarin to help the country cope with an increase in Chinese tourists.

Toyota puts best foot forward with robotic leg

TOKYO - Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk.

'Silent killer': Millions of poor in developing nations menaced by heat

BHUBANESWAR - On a hot, humid afternoon on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar in eastern India, construction worker Sabitri Mahanand frets about increasingly "dangerous" summers.

Homage to 'hero' of divisive novel

WASHINGTON - His life may have inspired the landmark novel Uncle Tom's Cabin but 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the United States, Josiah Henson remains a controversial figure, and efforts to turn his onetime home outside Washington into a museum are slow at best.

Eighty-two-year-old disc jockey proves a hit on Tokyo's club scene

TOKYO - By day, Sumiko Iwamuro runs a Chinese restaurant, where she has worked for six decades making "gyoza" dumplings, while by night, she spins records at Tokyo clubs under the moniker DJ Sumirock.

Malala on message after award for equality work

NEW YORK - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday designated 19-year-old Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan as the UN's youngest Messenger of Peace with a special focus on girls' education.

Job shift creates hope and tension as election looms

PARIS - It's lunchtime and Parisians are queuing for baguettes at a bakery on the Rue Montmartre, a sight long typical of life in the French capital.

Road salt runoff threatens North American lakes

WASHINGTON - Salting of roads in winter helps drivers navigate snow and ice, but the runoff may be irreparably damaging freshwater lakes in the United States and Canada, researchers warned on Monday.

Japan tries to take heart as pace of population decline slows slightly

TOKYO - Japan's population will fall nearly a third by 2065, with almost 40 percent aged 65 or older and the working population laboring under a tougher pension burden, although the pace of population decline has slowed slightly, a government agency said on Monday.

Pulitzer Prize for composer Du Yun

NEW YORK - The Chinese-born composer Du Yun won the Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday for Angel's Bone, an experimental opera that explores the psychology behind human trafficking.