ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches.
MANILA - The Philippine government will stick to its policy of not negotiating with extremists allied with the Islamic State group that overran Marawi City in the southern Philippines in May, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
LONDON - Harry Potter turns 20 on Monday when muggle readers in gowns and glasses from Indonesia to Uruguay will celebrate the birth of a global publishing phenomenon in 1997.
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.
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