NEW YORK - The United Nations marked the first World Tuna Day on Tuesday with calls to conserve one of the globe's most popular fish to be caught and eaten.
CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was scheduled to depart on a whirlwind trip to the United States on Wednesday, during which he will meet with US President Donald Trump for the first time since Trump took office.
KABUL - A powerful blast targeting an armored NATO convoy in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 27 on Wednesday, including three coalition soldiers, officials said days after the Taliban announced their spring offensive.
HEBRON, West Bank - The city famous for its ceramics and officially named the World Crafts City by UNESCO is pushing the ancient traditional craft to take a more modern approach.
CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS, Ukraine - Perched 2,000 meters up on a snowcapped peak in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains, the Bilyi Slon observatory has stood empty and battered by the elements for some seven decades.
SYDNEY - Australia is far from the typical setting you might imagine for a polar bear, but week-old twins born on the Gold Coast are currently doing very well, a spokesperson for Sea World said on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES - A tentative deal was reached between screenwriters and producers, averting a strike that could have crippled TV and film production and inflicted harm on the wider California economy.
WASHINGTON - Researchers said on Monday they had removed HIV from the genomes of living animals, giving hope that the AIDS virus could be eliminated in humans.
The legal chief of Beijing's representative office in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has rebuffed insinuations that the central government is trying to "mainlandize" Hong Kong.
Saturday marked US President Donald Trump's 100th day in office, and his governance capability, personal charisma and whether he had fulfilled the commitments he made during his campaign received a lot of attention worldwide.
ON FRIDAY, a martial arts competition between a mixed martial arts expert Xu Xiaodong and tai chi master Wei Lei was held in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province. Wei was knocked out within 20 seconds, which triggered fierce online discussions about the effectiveness of traditional Chinese martial arts. Beijing News comments:
MONDAY was International Workers' Day. In order to celebrate it, many local authorities posted slogans on the street such as "Labor is glorious". However, workers need better protection of their legal rights and interests rather than slogans, says Beijing Youth Daily:
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