BOSTON - Years before he captained the torpedo boat PT-109, ran for office or set the United States on a path to put a man on the moon, president John F. Kennedy was a troublesome teen whose hijinks nearly got him kicked out of his prestigious boarding school.
BUWAIDER, Syria - Perched on his chestnut steed Shams, teenager Munzer triumphantly held up his first place trophy at a rare horse race staged in an opposition-held area of Syria.
WASHINGTON - Scientists think they have answered a whale of a mystery: How the ocean creatures got so huge so quickly.
THE HAGUE - A 30-year-old poplar on the campus of Wageningen University and Research has begun tweeting about its growth in relation to changes in soil-water conditions, temperature and air humidity.
CAIRO - "Traditional handmade lanterns will never lose their appeal in Egypt during the month of Ramadan," said 42-year-old lantern maker Hussein Sayyid on Wednesday from his workshop in Cairo's al-Qalaa neighborhood.
LOS ANGELES - A timeless tale of an adorable fawn and his forest pals, or the death of childhood innocence? Either way, and nearly 75 years on, Disney classic Bambi packs as powerful a punch as it ever has.
WELLINGTON - A private New Zealand-based company joined the exclusive space-race club on Thursday with the successful launch of a Rocket Lab test craft named Electron.
AMSTERDAM - Coffins decked out with board games, grave sites doubling as vegetable patches or children's toy "funeral building bricks" complete with a hearse and crematorium - just some of the latest trends for dealing with death.
NEW YORK - At a corner of the north lawn at the UN headquarters, peacekeepers and diplomats led by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres mourned in silence on Wednesday morning for fallen peacekeepers who lost their lives while serving under the UN flag.
BEIJING - For Japanese ballerina Yoko Morishita, performing The White-Haired Girl went way beyond an intriguing mix of Western art and a Chinese story.
LONDON - Actor Roger Moore, who earned international fame playing British secret agent James Bond in seven movies, died of cancer on Tuesday at the age of 89, his family said.
LOS ANGELES - Michael Bay sank his hands and feet into the forecourt of Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday as he was honored for a money-spinning movie career that has netted almost $6 billion.
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