MOMCHILOVTSI, Bulgaria - The Bulgarian villagers hunker over their books, struggling with their Mandarin words and characters. But they are not going to China - China is coming to them. Because of yogurt.
VANCOUVER - A tennis ball-sized rough diamond unearthed nearly two years ago by Canada's Lucara Diamond Corp has been sold for $53 million, the Vancouver-based company said on Monday.
MIAMI, Florida - Miami is a city that lives on air conditioning. When it fails, people can die.
DASOL, Philippines - Policemen in a remote village have been giving out free haircuts as part of a program to prevent young boys from joining rebel groups.
KANUMA, Japan - A series of fatal crashes caused by elderly drivers has left authorities desperately grappling for ways to clamp down on a problem that experts warn is only going to get worse as the population ages.
BERLIN - As widely expected, Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party again won Germany's federal elections on Sunday by garnering 32.5 percent of the votes.
CHIBA, Japan - In her online world, she is "Lady Beast", deftly operating her green monster Blanka in dizzying hand-to-hand street-fighting combat on the global professional gaming circuit.
BHUBANESWAR, India - Kumari Behera carefully folds a set of heavy brown jute sacks, stacking them in a corner of her small, windowless shack.
NANTES, France - Putting an end to the unnecessary burning of biodegradable waste, one restaurant at a time, has become the forceful mission of a team of French cyclists.
MILAN - Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht has a vision for a world in which people stop telling themselves little lies about their emotions - and she believes high-tech fashion is the key.
As a national-level pilot zone, Changchun New Area in Jilin province, is leading the reforms and revitalization of China's northeastern regions, with its location, innovation and opening-up edges, local officials said at a forum held earlier this month in Beijing.
When Han Dan first launched his vegetarian food production business in Changchun New Area, he did not expect that the company would grow so quickly and receive such warm support from the local government.
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