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.
LONDON - The vast majority of people say they are ready to make changes to their standard of living if it will prevent future climate catastrophe, a survey on global threats found on Wednesday.
MIAMI, Florida - Two US astronauts successfully completed what NASA described as a "critical" spacewalk to repair a failed piece of equipment that helps power the International Space Station.
MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Wednesday that he'll be harsh in enforcing martial law in his country's south as he abruptly left Moscow to deal with a crisis at home sparked by an extremist siege on a city, where militants burned buildings overnight and taken hostages.
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