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Healing wounds in Irma's wake

[2017-09-14 07:34]

MIAMI, Florida - "It felt like a big bomb on top of the roof," Hector, a homeowner in South Miami's Coconut Grove, said on Monday as he remembered the scene from Sunday's storm.

Morocco tourists make tracks on 007's desert train

[2017-09-14 07:34]

BOUARFA, Morocco - Edouard Kunz knows timekeeping is important but the former Swiss watch mechanic admits that James Bond's Oriental Desert Express in remote eastern Morocco never runs on schedule.

Couple marries after 50 years apart

[2017-09-14 07:34]

ROCHESTER, New York - He was an Elvis Presley-loving sailor who spun records for the US Navy radio station on the Caribbean base where he was stationed. She was a local woman whose brother worked at the facility.

Costs dish out stress for families

[2017-09-14 07:34]

SYDNEY - Australia's poorest families are struggling to afford healthy food, a new study revealed on Wednesday.

Warning as hurricanes hit US

[2017-09-13 07:41]

It is sobering to learn that Florida, known among Chinese as a popular tourist destination and a place where heads of state of the two countries held their first meeting in April, is being devastated by the Hurricane Irma.

Vestager, the Dane who is Google's bane

[2017-09-13 07:41]

BRUSSELS - If the critics of Silicon Valley needed a leader, many would turn to Denmark's Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's top antitrust regulator.

Macron faces test over labor overhaul

[2017-09-13 07:41]

PARIS - French unions launched a day of strikes and protests on Tuesday against Emmanuel Macron's flagship labor reforms, a key test as he stakes his presidency on overhauling the sluggish economy.

ASEAN agrees on 'key parts' to accelerate talks

[2017-09-13 07:41]

MANILA - Economic ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations members have agreed on removal of barriers on at least 92 percent of product lines over five to 10 years.

Terrorism threat casts shadow

[2017-09-12 08:00]

BRUSSELS - Known as the Heart of Europe, Brussels easily captures the heart of newcomers with its thousands of hectares of green spaces and neoclassical style buildings.

Seed 'ark' preserves plant diversity

[2017-09-12 08:00]

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts - An ordinary-looking freezer in a sturdy cinder block shed at a suburban Boston botanical garden holds what might be New England's most important seed catalog.

Fashion on upward curve: Plus size model out to prove bigger is beautiful

[2017-09-12 08:00]

NEW YORK - For years, images of impossibly slim, gorgeous, blemish-free women have filled fashion magazines, billboards and television screens.

Cats roam the railway to raise plight of strays

[2017-09-12 08:00]

OGAKI, Japan - A Japanese civic group teamed up with a railway operator on Sunday to let some 30 cats roam on a local train at an event, hoping it will raise awareness of the culling of stray cats.