CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - The world's nights are getting alarmingly brighter, which is bad news for all sorts of creatures, humans included.
MOSCOW - A boatload of tourists in the Far Eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realization that some 200 polar bears were roaming on the mountain slope.
NEW YORK - A self-taught rocket scientist in the United States will launch himself into the sky with a homemade rocket in a bid to prove the Earth is flat.
SEOUL - An annual hush descended upon South Korea on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of students sat the crucial national college entrance exam, delayed for a week by a rare earthquake.
SYDNEY - Visitors to an Australian tourist hotspot have been advised to use umbrellas to protect themselves against dingo attacks, according to research.
WAKISO, Uganda - When war broke out in neighboring South Sudan in 2013, Gabriel Omiat became jobless and had to return to Uganda, with nothing much left.
TOKYO - When Yohei Fukuda left for England more than a decade ago to learn his trade as a master leather shoemaker, he could hardly have imagined that his native Japan would one day become a leader in this traditionally European art.
BERLIN - Diaries, prescription glasses and a cigarette case are among some 100 items belonging to John Lennon that have been recovered in Berlin after they were allegedly stolen by Yoko Ono's driver last year, German officials said on Tuesday.
HERALD, West Virginia - A half century after serving in Vietnam, hundreds of veterans have a new reason to believe they may be dying from a silent killer.
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim believes the next head of the agency should be decided on merit rather than nationality.
BUKAVU, DR Congo - For the past 12 years, Chinese peacekeepers have been providing assistance to the SOS Children's Village in the city of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
NAIROBI - Stacy Awuor developed a love for soccer at a tender age while growing up in Nairobi's Mathare slums, where poverty and other social problems have always conspired to deny youngsters a chance to realize their dreams.
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