NEW HAMPTON, New York - Through smoke and sparks and staccato banging from his anvil, John Lundemo forges swooping swords that look like they should be pulled from a stone, swung by a samurai or thrust on Game of Thrones.
NEW DELHI - After years of slow but steady decline the colonial-era Regal cinema, a New Delhi institution, is enjoying a late flourishing - just as it is about to close its doors.
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Volunteer wardens in zebra costume have been catapulted to global internet stardom thanks to a US talk show.
DHAKA - Tourists love to capture the many wonderful moments they experience at Cox's Bazar, one of the world's longest unbroken sandy beaches, situated 300 kilometers southeast of Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka.
KATHMANDU - Mountaineering expedition organizers in Nepal are sending huge trash bags with climbers on Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West, during the spring climbing season to collect trash that then can be winched by helicopters back to the base camp.
CHICAGO - A paralyzed man in Cleveland fed himself mashed potatoes for the first time in eight years, aided by a computer-brain interface that reads his thoughts and sends signals to move muscles in his arm, US researchers said on Tuesday.
MANILA - The Philippines has revived plans to remove jeepneys that are older than 10 years from Manila's gridlocked streets, stirring a fresh debate on the fate of the vehicles that have been chugging around the country since the 1950s.
TOKYO - Most people look for a place to hide when a typhoon is on the horizon, but Atsushi Shimizu hopes that the fury of nature may one day help resource-poor Japan tackle its energy woes.
NEW YORK - As the escalation of the conflict in Yemen enters its third year this week, the top United Nations humanitarian official has called on the parties to the conflict to commit to political dialogue and resolve the situation or risk an unending man-made crisis.
ATHENS - Jawad Ahmadi, an 18-year-old Afghan, reached the island of Lesbos a year ago with his older brother and cousin, believing Greece would be just a temporary stop on his way to Germany.
SAN FRANCISCO, MEXICO - With their gravity-defying trampoline flips, graceful acrobatics, juggling and tightrope walking, the children in San Francisco's circus school are bringing a touch of Cirque du Soleil magic to this bohemian Pacific beach town.
SYDNEY - An "unprecedented" 21 different types of dinosaur tracks have been found on a stretch of Australia's remote coastline, scientists said on Monday, dubbing it the nation's Jurassic Park.
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