LIVERPOOL, UNITED KINGDOM - A three-week long festival was announced on Wednesday in Liverpool to celebrate the release 50 years ago of the iconic album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The record, by the Beatles, has been hailed as the world's first art rock, with its cover one of the most recognizable ever produced.
JAKARTA - Indonesia says nearly 19,000 square meters of coral reef was damaged by a foreign cruise ship that ran aground in the pristine waters of Raja Ampat in West Papua Province earlier this month.
KABUL - Afghan authorities expect work on the first phase of a multimillion-dollar housing project financed by China to begin within months, as Beijing continues to raise its development profile in the region.
FANZARA, SPAIN - Fanzara is a small Spanish country village whose handful of mostly elderly residents were once so bitterly divided that their allegiance to one camp or the other determined which bar they frequented.
WASHINGTON - The White House confirmed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump will join fellow NATO leaders for a key May summit in Brussels, as the US administration seeks to quash questions about Trump's support for the alliance.
LONDON - An ancient Assyrian winged bull sculpture destroyed by Islamic State fighters in 2015 is to be remade from empty Iraqi date syrup cans and displayed in Trafalgar Square in London.
SEOUL - Influenced by South Korea's current plan to deploy Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, South Korea's trade and tourism industries in recent months have been witnessing downturns too bitter to taste for many companies and businesses here.
OAKLAND, UNITED STATES - They welded pipes. They drew blueprints. And, of course, they fastened munitions and machine parts together with rivets.
TOKYO - The prospect of a cheaper funeral is being used to entice elderly Japanese drivers to give up their licenses as police step up efforts to prevent accidents caused by ageing motorists.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - Researchers have found that New Zealand's kea parrot has the avian equivalent of an infectious laugh - a call that when heard prompts others to drop everything and have some fun.
SYDNEY - A British backpacker who inspired a drunk Australian teenager to swim in crocodile-infested waters, narrowly avoiding death, said on Tuesday she was not impressed by the fraught romantic gesture.
NEW YORK - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates once again topped the Forbes magazine list of the world's richest billionaires, while US President Donald Trump slipped more than 200 spots, the magazine said Monday.
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