CAIRO - The 2,000-year-old tradition of Chinese dragon boat racing has found a new home in Egypt's Nile River after the opening of a training academy in the province of Giza.
MELBOURNE - One in five Australians has admitted to being the subject of online "image abuse", where photographs - often of an explicit nature - are unknowingly shared online, according the results of a survey released on Monday.
LOS ANGELES - When the acupuncture needles were inserted into his body, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the Oscar-winning director, struggled to keep smiling in front of his wife and three kids, who were holding their breath and watching attentively.
JERUSALEM - Palestinian fashion designer Natalie Tahhan is hard at work in her Jerusalem studio, replacing the painstaking processes of cross-stitching and embroidery with a laptop computer and printed fabric.
KATHMANDU, Nepal - Family and supporters on Sunday honored an 85-year-old Nepali man who died trying to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Qomolangma (known in the West as Mount Everest), while officials stressed the need to limit the age for such a daunting physical challenge.
SEOUL - The Republic of Korea was scheduled to hold a presidential election on Tuesday following the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye over corruption allegations.
In welcoming scores of Chinese and US business leaders to Omaha, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts said he believes the state's relationship with China will grow.
Emmanuel Macron may have won the French presidency but that may prove to be the easiest part of his political campaign.
ABUJA, Nigeria - A group of 82 girls held captive for three years by extremists met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital Abuja on Sunday a day after they were released in exchange for several militant commanders, officials said.
WASHINGTON - After a series of stinging legal defeats, US President Donald Trump's administration hopes to convince a federal appeals court that his travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries is motivated by national security, not religion.
BANGKOK - An online anti-Red Bull campaign has rolled out in Thailand as the public are fueled by the hit-and-run case of the fugitive Red Bull heir, local media reported on Monday.
BERLIN - The head of Germany's armed forces has called for an inspection of all army barracks after investigators discovered Nazi-era military memorabilia in a garrison, broadening a scandal about right-wing extremism among soldiers.
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