BIDI BIDI, Uganda - The soccer field is littered with sharp stones, but the girls who attack the ball with their bare feet play on.
SYDNEY - Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth A$56 billion ($42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is "too big to fail", a study said on Monday.
LOS ANGELES - A SpaceX rocket carried 10 communications satellites into orbit from California on Sunday, two days after the company launched a satellite from Florida.
LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney's "presentation map", which the late animation entrepreneur drew in the 1950s to attract investors to the idea for his Disneyland theme park, sold for $708,000 at an auction on Sunday.
SAO LOURENCO, Brazil - A small Brazilian city once famous for its mineral water springs is now welcoming tourists with a new attraction - a specialty coffee with unique taste and quality.
TOKYO - The death of a former newsreader who won acclaim for blogging about her breast cancer fight hit the headlines on Saturday in Japan, with the media and officials praising her courage.
VANCOUVER - There's a saying, if these walls could talk. Walls certainly can't talk, but music can touch the heart, especially the songs that evoke memories.
PETALUMA, California - Martha is big, ugly, lazy and gassy. And a world champion.
CANBERRA - An Australian engineer has revealed a plan to combat deforestation by using drones to plant 1 billion trees every year.
NEW YORK - Opera has been popping up recently at the most unlikely New York places: a revamped garage, a dive bar, a basketball court and even an old aircraft carrier.
DUBAI - Four Arab states boycotting Qatar over alleged support for terrorism have sent Doha a list of 13 demands, including closing Al-Jazeera television and reducing ties to Iran, an official of one of the four countries said.
WASHINGTON - Ending a lengthy guessing game that he started with a cryptic tweet and that ensnared his administration in yet more controversy, US President Donald Trump on Thursday declared he never made and doesn't have recordings of his private conversations with ousted former FBI director James Comey.
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