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.
YANGON, Myanmar - The government is pushing to have an ancient city in the central part of the country included as a World Cultural Heritage Site.
NEW DELHI - More women in India have become part of the financial system with their own bank accounts after years of being excluded from the sector.
LONDON - A tiny portrait Pablo Picasso set into a ring to appease his lover Dora Maar after an argument will go under the hammer at Sotheby's London auction house next week.
Pruitt exit at G7 talks highlights gap between countries
CORUMBA, Brazil - Greener pastures grow under water in the Pantanal de Mato Grosso do Sul, an immense area of wetlands in western Brazil.
RUSKIE PIASKI, Poland - An elderly woman leans over to smell a lush flower bed of lavender in sprawling gardens surrounding an imposing early 20th-century palace in a pastoral corner of eastern Poland.
AMMAN, Jordan - Fourteen-year-old Abdullah said he worked almost every day at a vegetable market in the city center of Amman to help support his family.
NEW YORK - A pair of sports shoes worn by Michael Jordan during the basketball finals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics sold on Sunday for $190,372 in an online auction, the auction house announced.
PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron's party and its ally took a big lead in the first round of French legislative election on Sunday, which refracted that the new and young French president is winning emerging confidence of voters, with his "not bad" performance.
DOHA - Qatar said on Monday that it had begun shipping cargo through Oman to bypass Gulf countries that have cut off sea routes to the tiny, energy-rich nation, its latest move to show it can survive a diplomatic dispute with its neighbors.
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