ANKARA - The unusual and very efficient whistle language used as a means of communication by villagers in the remote and mountainous northern Turkey has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage but could soon be overtaken by modern technology.
LOS ANGELES - Disney and LucasFilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi has cleared the $1 billion milestone in worldwide grosses in less than three weeks.
TEHERAN - Clashes overnight between protesters and security forces in Iran killed nine people, state television reported on Tuesday, including some rioters who tried to storm a police station to steal weapons.
TOKYO - The Japanese government aims to put unmanned self-driving vehicles into practical use under limited conditions by 2020. However, it has been pointed out that current laws are not equipped to deal with liability in accidents involving self-driving cars.
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Children's Fund estimated on Monday that nearly 386,000 babies were born on New Year's Day, with more than 90 percent in developing regions.
JERUSALEM, Middle East - Israel set a higher threshold on Tuesday for any future vote on ceding parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians, who want the eastern part of the city as capital for a future independent state.
CANBERRA - A member of the Australian government on Tuesday called for international visitors to the country to pass a driving test before they can rent a car. Sarah Henderson, a member of parliament for the governing Liberal National Party, on Tuesday announced a push for a more stringent approach to international driver's licenses.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for nations to walk the path of unity in 2018 to overcome the challenges facing world peace, as he joined global leaders in delivering New Year's messages.
SEOUL - The Republic of Korea's presidential office on Monday welcomed the New Year address by Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as Kim showed his willingness to talk with Seoul about the DPRK's possible participation in the South Korea-hosted Winter Olympics.
Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to continue to forge ahead with Britain's departure from the European Union in 2018 in her New Year message.
In February 2012, during his trip to the United States, then Vice-President Xi Jinping recounted an old story: An American man called Milton Gardner grew up in Guling.
Travel outside China? An impossible dream, or so Wei Qinghua, now 51, thought when she was a teenager. Wei, from the Dong ethnic group in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has seen her embroidery skills realize her dream and the entry stamps of many countries, in Europe and elsewhere, are in her passport.
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