Doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong, a California biotech billionaire and a minority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, struck a big deal on Wednesday to buy Los Angeles Times from Chicago-based Tronc Inc.
PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador - With its iconic giant tortoises, crested black iguanas, huge ocean manta rays and a veritable menagerie of other cool creatures, the Galapagos Islands are one of the most beautiful places you will probably never visit.
KIEV, Ukraine - "I love this very much! My soul is singing," says Lucia Pavlovna, who is joining in with a Ukrainian folk song during the Spring Festival celebration in a nursing home on the outskirts of Kiev.
New research suggests ancient Britons had dark-brown or black skin, dark wavy hair and blue eyes.
PARIS - Skiers swished down the hilly streets of Montmartre in Paris on Wednesday, taking advantage of heavy snowfall that otherwise spelled misery for thousands of travelers.
The 2018 Spring Festival gala for overseas Chinese will tour 29 cities, according to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council on Tuesday.
INDIANA - A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favor of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.
MUMBAI - A Bollywood movie about an inventor who created a revolutionary machine that makes cheap sanitary pads hits screens this week, challenging taboos surrounding menstruation in India.
BREST, France - Fancy a job at the North or South Pole? A French research institute is looking for you.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand wildlife lovers are mourning the death of a gannet named Nigel, dubbed "the loneliest bird in the world "due to the absence of any feathered friends on his island home.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claimed that in Latin America, China "offers the appearance of an attractive path to development" that "often involves trading short-term gains for long-term dependency".
Peru's trade minister defended China as a good trade partner on Tuesday, after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Latin American countries against excessive reliance on economic ties with the Asian country.
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