Around 100 Chinese-language road signs and tourist information boards will soon be seen along the streets of Moscow to meet the needs of growing numbers of Chinese tourists to the Russian capital.
FUJISAWA, Japan - When 82-year-old Masako Wakamiya first began working she still used an abacus for maths - today she is one of the world's oldest iPhone app developers, a trailblazer in making smartphones accessible for the elderly.
HAVANA - Cuba's culinary heritage is alive and well, thanks to award-winning Cuban chef Jorge Luis Mendez and others like him.
NEW DELHI - A scare has gripped women in north Indian states following mysterious incidents of women having their braids braid cut off while sleeping, police said on Saturday.
ROME - Swathes of southern Europe sweltered Saturday in a heat wave that has claimed several lives, cost billions in crop damage and is, scientists warned, a foretaste of worse to follow in coming decades.
CAMBRIDGE, Vermont - What was once a smattering of farms offering expensive dinners within view of the fields where the food was raised has sprouted into popular summer and fall events that run the gamut from multicourse dinners to weekly burger nights at farms across the country.
ATLANTA - A colossal panoramic painting depicting the Battle of Atlanta from the American Civil War will be lifted by cranes from the building where it has been housed for nearly a century and then trucked to its new location.
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller is using a grand jury in Washington as part of an investigation into alleged coordination between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia, a source familiar with the probe said on Thursday.
SYDNEY - A man instructed by the Islamic State to bring down an Etihad Airways flight tried to use an unsuspecting passenger to carry a bomb on board, with a second poison gas plot also in the works, Australian police alleged on Friday.
TOKYO - Japanese police and fire investigators sifted through the charred wreckage of parts of the world's largest fish market, a day after flames tore through seven buildings at the Tokyo tourist site.
SEOUL - South Korea's spy agency admitted on Thursday that it had engaged in a far-reaching attempt to manipulate voters as it sought to help conservatives win parliamentary and presidential elections.
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