KILLORGLIN, Ireland - For a few days this week, a goat will be king of a small town in Ireland's rural south west.
LIMA - Peru's archaeological ruins of Vichama, built by Peru's Caral culture, contain "the collective memory of climate change that occurred more than 3,800 years ago", said Peruvian archaeologist Aldemar Crispin, who is in charge of field research at the site.
MUMBAI - The unmistakable chatter of typewriters outside courthouses and government offices will soon fall silent in India's financial capital Mumbai as stenography colleges on Friday hold their final manual exams.
NEW YORK - For many Game of Thrones fans, the routine spoilers are bad enough: You miss an episode, then stumble on an unsought plot twist before you've had a chance to catch up.
WASHINGTON - A ferocious sea-going crocodile that menaced coastal waters about 164 million years ago during the Jurassic Period has been given a name honoring the similarly ferocious looking heavy-metal rocker Lemmy, the late frontman for the British band Motorhead.
FUJISAWA, Japan - The summer delicacy of roasted eel, braised with a tangy sauce and sprinkled with prickly mountain pepper, is in question as the creatures with their mysterious migrations become increasingly endangered.
Just days after the Trump administration submitted a letter to the United Nations withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord, a leaked government draft report showed that climate change is already having an impact on the country.
SOC TRANG, Vietnam - With a flashy gold watch and a chunky matching ring, Tang Van Cuol looks a far cry from the average Vietnamese farmer as he slings back a shot of rice wine and boasts about his projected earnings.
WASHINGTON - Country music legend Glen Campbell, the mellow-voiced "Rhinestone Cowboy" who sold millions of albums over a career that spanned decades, has died at the age of 81.
HARTFORD, Connecticut-A felon who graduated from Yale Law School and won acclaim as a poet is being asked by a committee to prove his "good moral character" before he is allowed to practice law.
LONDON - A French startup is reaching for the skies with a flight-sharing app, matching pilots with passengers looking for a low-cost way to take off in a private aircraft.
VIENNA - A pair of panda twins, born last year at Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, celebrated their first birthday on Monday with a big party.
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