An 85-year-old former Gurkha is making a bid to reclaim his title as the world's oldest person to summit Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest.
Love may be in the air on Valentine's Day but authorities in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore warned on Monday of a growth in online scams cheating lonely people out of their savings.
Advisers specializing in mergers and acquisitions for mostly family-run firms are enjoying a boom in Japan, as an aging, shrinking population brings in the boundaries on the country's small business landscape.
Spokesman says prosecutors may seek arrest of other executives
A special assembly elected former German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier by an overwhelming majority Sunday to be the country's new president.
Audiences at the Berlin film festival are submitting themselves to a groundbreaking immersive multimedia project on nuclear war, whose risk its US filmmakers say has soared over the last year.
In crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, people in the capital increasingly turn to street hawkers to feed themselves and their families cheaply, but the makeshift option is often not a hygienic one.
Dogs from petite papillons to muscular Rottweilers showed off their four-footed agility on Saturday at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, tackling obstacles from hurdles to tunnels. And next door, so did some decidedly rare breeds for the Westminster world: cats.
King of cool Alexander Wang ditched the bright lights and glitzy skyscrapers of New York on Saturday to stage his latest fashion show against a backdrop of crumbling decay in a disused Harlem theater.
The music world gathers on Sunday for the Grammys with the top awards a choice between a new, edgier Beyonce and the time-tested ballads of Adele.
Whale rescuers were cautiously optimistic on Sunday that the current wave of mass beachings in New Zealand was over, after hundreds of the creatures died after being stranded ashore.
A German parliamentary assembly is electing the country's new president on Sunday, and the country's former foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is the overwhelming favorite to win.
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