TOKYO - A new documentary film about Okunoshima, an island where Japan manufactured poison gas for its 1937-45 war of aggression against China, is attracting a great deal of attention.
ANFEH, Lebanon - At 93, Elias al-Najjar has spent half a century harvesting salt by hand from ponds on Lebanon's Mediterranean shore, but he and his colleagues fear their way of life is dying.
WASHINGTON - While Monday's total solar eclipse in the United States will be a once-in-a-lifetime sky show for millions, there's a small group of people who have experienced it all before - and they can't get enough of it.
NEW DELHI - Razorsharp strings on kites flown as part of the traditional Indian Independence Day celebrations are taking a painful toll on birds.
BARCELONA - Exasperated with the hordes of visitors they blame for making their city unlivable, Barcelona residents have risen in protest.
DAKAR, Senegal - Staring out to sea on a flawlessly sunny day, underwater archaeologist Ibrahima Thiaw visualizes three shipwrecks once packed with slaves that now lie somewhere beneath Senegal's Atlantic waves.
KABUL - Amid tight security, over two dozen young models, including six women, strutted down the catwalk in the garden of a private Kabul villa, proudly displaying the traditional clothing and costumes of Afghanistan's many ethnic groups.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has said that it is wrong for the London landmark Big Ben to go silent for four years.
PARIS - David Attenborough earned his wings on Wednesday after scientists named a 100-million-year-old damselfly after the veteran British broadcaster and naturalist.
EFRAT, Palestinian Territories - The foreigners yell "fire, fire, fire" before shooting their automatic weapons as Israeli instructors look on - but this is no military training.
MORIYA, Japan - Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo.
NEW YORK - Gourmet fun or just plain cheesy?
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